Ancient Quote by Nancy Spero

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them…

— Liza Campbell

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my…

— Maurice Sendak

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I…

— Jonathan Hickman

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

— Emma Anderson

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could…

— Lynne Tillman

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

— Kevin Nealon

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them…

— Andrew Loomis

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

— Natalie Babbitt

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

— Russell Banks

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4…

— William Klein

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 didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

— Phil Foglio