Javier Bardem Quotes

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

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.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

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 always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

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.

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

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

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.