Nathan Sawaya Quotes

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

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 majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

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

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

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

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.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

What I'm good at is making art.

Sometimes I like to draw.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

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.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.