Mickalene Thomas Quotes

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.