Ralph H. Baer Quotes

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I just wanna be a good artist.

I am only an artist.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

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

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

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

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

I made one untitled piece.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

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