Artistic Aptitude Quotes

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

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

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway.

I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.

I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

Good writing comes from good talent.

I love when a guy has some sort of talent.

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

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

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

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