Marco Zanini Quotes

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.