Denise Fleming Quotes

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I love an art-school girl. I mean... don't we all?

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I have been drawing all my life.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

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

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

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there. It was tough to find my footing, but thankfully, my parents discovered, through a neighbor, this theater called Young Actors Theater and signed me up for the summer program. It really was a gift. Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do. I'm so thankful for that theater; it was a big gift to me.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brushing my teeth. It couldn't be a job. I had a much more difficult time writing plays, making myself sit at that typewriter and finish those things.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.