Cleo Moore Quotes

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

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.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

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

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I love painting.