Asif Kapadia Quotes

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

I have a BFA in illustration.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't want to act. For some reason, being in Kansas, you can either be a graphic artist or a visual artist, so I decided, 'I guess I'm going to be a painter.'

I have become an employee of art.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

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

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.