Ellen McLaughlin Quotes

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

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 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.

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

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

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

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

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

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

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

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

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

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

I am not a person who just wants to be an actor. Do you know what I mean? I am an artist who wants to speak to people through his work: through his vessel.