Lynda Resnick Quotes

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 went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

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 come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

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

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.

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

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

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

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.