Gretchen Parlato Quotes

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I grew up with artists.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

I keep a creative group around me.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.