I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
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I started painting when I was in high school.
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
I did painting before I did photography.