“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.” WantedFatherHouseGrowing UpGrowingTalentPaintingPaintCornersPainterBoredKnocking Author:Markus Zusak
“I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.” PersonsSometimesPlayArtistFatherBasketballMusicianPainterLarry Author:Larry Sanders
“My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'” ChildrenArtSaidFatherTaughtDrawsPainterIndian Author:N. Scott Momaday
“My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.” WorldIdeasWarWantedArtistCertainFatherArmyPaintPhotographerOilPainterNo IdeaWar Of The WorldsSundayWorld War IiWorld War I Author:David Salle
“My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.” IdeasEnoughFatherHouseSouthPainterShopsRuinedHarnessBarnsFlashyDandy Book:A story teller's story: a critical text Source: A story teller's story: a critical text
“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.” KindArtKidsFatherFeltEasyWaterClassColorDrawsDrawingPainterHatedSundayAssignmentsArt Class Author:Wade Guyton
“My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.” WayWantHardDreamWantedJobsArtistFatherFictionSupportNovelDadMy FamilyScience FictionMy DadRidiculousBunchPainterFrustratedSparesOur FatherBeing An ArtistSpare TimeFiction Novels Author:Rainn Wilson