Quentin Blake Quotes

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

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

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

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

I've been painting since I was a kid.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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

I wanted to be a painter.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.