Norman Spinrad Quotes

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

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

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

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

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

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

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

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

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.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But every time I would try to sit down and be an illustrator or painter, it was just not my best use.

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you start painting, you don't want to leave your brush and colours.