Demetri Martin Quotes

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

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

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

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

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.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

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.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I have been drawing all my life.

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

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

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

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

I loved drawing, but I just couldn't do it to the level that some of my friends could. That pulled me up unconsciously because I wanted to be like them, and I wanted to draw.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.