Barry Keoghan Quotes

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.

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

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

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

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

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.'

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

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

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.