Robyn Davidson Quotes

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

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

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

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.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.