Joni Mitchell Quotes

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

I have a BFA in illustration.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

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'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.