Brian Selznick Quotes

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.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

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

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

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

Normal people do not create art.

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

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

I am not an artist which is 'in.'

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

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 used to obsessively draw. I was really good at it.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I am a freelance artiste.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.