Nikki DeLoach Quotes

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

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I am a freelance artiste.

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

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

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

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'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.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

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 think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.