Amy Adams Quotes

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

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

I have been drawing all my life.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

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.

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

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

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

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

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled at by my teachers, get my drawings taken away. That stuff happened all the time.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.