John Lithgow Quotes

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

What I'm good at is making art.

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.

I have been drawing all my life.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

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

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.

Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.