Noel Fielding Quotes

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of it, don't lose it as a hobby. Artists often end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their art. But that side needs to be fulfilled - don't give it up.

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

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

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

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

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.