Nana Patekar Quotes

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

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

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.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

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

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

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

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I started drawing when I was about 2, mostly pictures of my mother and my sister. When I got into school, instead of taking the notes that I should have been taking, I was drawing in all of my notebooks. It was an artwork thing for me at first.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

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

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

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.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.