Helen McCrory Quotes

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

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

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

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

I'm a huge art buff.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

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

I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

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

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

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

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

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they're both really creative people.

I have become an employee of art.

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

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