Abstract Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized…

— Paul Smith

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been…

— Sarah Ruhl

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

— Helen McCrory

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

— Gauri Khan

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative…

— Gauri Khan

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is…

— Jack Kirby

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

— Thomas Kinkade

I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that…

— Paul Laffoley

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

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

— Ben Whishaw