Julia Roberts Quotes

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

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

I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.

I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well.

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.