Cate Blanchett Quotes

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

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

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I am a freelance artiste.

I don't know what I would have been doing if I was not in YG, but I think I would be doing something artistic.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.