“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingHeartHomeKidsTalkingBreakWifeDoorsPaintingPleaseGive MeCookingPhonesMy WifeMealsEggsSurgeryHookCeilingsAnnoyedOpen HeartDealing With PeopleHeart Surgery Author:Ken Robinson
“I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.” KnowsKidsColorPaintingTheoryDrawingNineCompositionDrawing And Painting Author:David Salle
“I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.” ThinkingShouldYearsHas BeensArtBookStoriesKidsWantedPaintingShould HaveAppreciationDrawingLove StoryOne TimeRejectedPencilsShould Have BeenMantrasReproductionMeditatingArtworkWholesaleBooks For KidsDrawing And PaintingArt AppreciationGail Author:Gail Carson Levine
“I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.” WritingDoneKidsComedyPaintingBallsComedy Writing Author:Jonathan Winters
“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.” KidsBlackStagePaintingSuitsDramaticSparkleBathingBathing Suits Author:Selena Gomez
“The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.” FeelsWellsLooksArtMadeKidsMotherStuffLove IsPaintingWallHusbandMy FriendsFolksRelatedAbstractMy HusbandOutsidersMy FriendshipAbstract ArtEbayFolk ArtPersonal StuffSurrounded By Love Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.” ArtDifferentKidsGrowing UpGrowingPaintingAspectDrawingDifferent ThingsFreakControl FreakKids Growing UpDrawing And PaintingMovies And Music Author:Rob Zombie
“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.” ArtStillsKidsCultureCreationPaintingHigherSingingArt IsDancingEverydayPopulationDrawingArtisticIndianDominantPercentagesIndian CultureDominant Culture Author:Sherman Alexie
“I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.” TwoKidsFourPaintingDadOfficeGardenIncludingFishesPostsShopsUnclesCentreChipsRetiredOwn BusinessDecoratingPost OfficeFish And ChipsLancashire Author:Rick Astley
“From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.” KidsYoungStuffComedyPaintingDrawingBloodyTwistsPrivate PartsDrawing And Painting Author:Tom Six
“A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.” KidsGamesEnergyBehindsQualityPaintingVideoAffirmationNerdyKids Playing Author:John Currin
“I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.” PeopleRealBigsKidsUsedCommunitySawsEventsPaintingPaintReal LifeOnlineForumsMiniaturesBig Events Author:Ansel Elgort
“Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.” SometimesDreamMightKidsPaintingGood ThingsPaint Author:Julian Schnabel
“I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."” WantLooksLittlesArtBodyKidsWantedFacesCoursesLanguagePayAttentionSituationClearPaintingBedConversationTiredPay AttentionLittle KidPostureBody LanguageArt History Author:Mallory Ortberg
“Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.” KidsYoungLevelsPaintingSingingThirdsGradesThird Grade Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.” DoneKidsSchoolFacesWaitingAnimalPartyTeacherMagicPaintingHairTablesPaintSellingClownHighlightsBalloonsSchool TeachersNanniesElmoPre School Author:Diora Baird
“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.” PeopleGivingArtKidsFormWishHoursAbilityComedyPaintingBills Author:Godfrey
“I think the worst lie I ever told was, because my last name is Goth, I used to tell kids at school that I used to be related to 'Van Gogh' and when I turned 18, I would inherit all the fortune from the sunflower painting.” ThinkingKidsSchoolLastsUsedLyingNamesWorstPaintingFortuneUsed To BeRelatedVansGothSunflower Author:Mia Goth
“When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.” ThinkingMenKidsJobsArtistPaintingBeardCeilingsChapelLeonardoSistine Chapel Author:Noel Fielding
“I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.” KidsSchoolStuffPaintingHigh SchoolAbstract Author:Dennis Hopper
“When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.” IfsArtKidsSchoolClassDesignPaintingPhotographyPhotographerSculptureGraphicGraphic DesignArt School Author:Ryan McGinley