John Ruskin Quotes

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

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

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I have been drawing all my life.

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.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I used to obsessively draw. I was really good at it.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

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.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

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

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

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

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

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

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

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.

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!

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.