Mal Peet Quotes

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I love being creative in all forms.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

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.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.