Ambition Quote by Robert Bateman Download Open image “I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.” — Robert Bateman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Giving Giving up Painting People Serious
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run.… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not… — Carly Chaikin Copy Share Image
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old. — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12:… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate.… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree,… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
