Artistic Start Quotes

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

In the case of 'Sweet Tooth,' and in the case of a lot of stuff I do, it all starts with the image. It may be something I sketch in my sketchbooks - something that reoccurs in the sketchbooks. Eventually, a character or story line starts to grow out of that.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I made my first mixtape when I was 11.

I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

I started painting when I was in high school.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from. But in the eighth grade, we had this songwriting contest in our school, and I got really excited about it and actually won. After that, I just kept making music forever.

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I wrote my first song at the age of 9 and of course it didn't make any sense.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

For me, piano is just where I started; I know where to go with it.

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

I started making beats when I was 13.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.