David Small Quotes

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.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

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

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of it, don't lose it as a hobby. Artists often end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their art. But that side needs to be fulfilled - don't give it up.

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

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

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

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

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.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

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.

Artists are like everybody else.

I can concentrate on my art.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.