Kristin Bauer van Straten 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 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 think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

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

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

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

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

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

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

I love an art-school girl. I mean... don't we all?

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

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.

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.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

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.