Sarah Carter Quotes

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

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

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

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

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.