Editing Anthony Quinn (section)

===Painting and writing===
[[File:Anthony Quinn, 2000.jpg|thumb|upright|Quinn in 2000]]

Art critic [[Donald Kuspit]] explains, "Examining Quinn's many expressions of creativity together—his art, collecting, and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius."<ref>[http://www.anthonyquinn.net/h04/04_03.html Exhibitions: Feedback] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511194025/http://www.anthonyquinn.net/h04/04_03.html |date=May 11, 2008}}, AnthonyQuinn.net; accessed March 30, 2015.</ref>

Early in life, Quinn had an interest in painting and drawing. Throughout his teenaged years, he won various art competitions in California and focused his studies at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles on drafting. Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship — an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest. Through Wright's recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of postoperative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.{{sfn|Marill|1975|page=15}}

Apart from art classes taken in Chicago during the 1950s, Quinn never attended art school; nonetheless, taking advantage of books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he managed to give himself an effective education in the language of modern art. By the early 1980s, his work had caught the eyes of various gallery owners and was exhibited internationally, in Mexico City, Los Angeles, New York City, and Paris. His work is now represented in both public and private collections throughout the world.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.artencounter.com/product/glance-mirror-anthony-quinn/| title=A Glance In The Mirror by Anthony Quinn| website=Art encounter| access-date=November 12, 2018| language=en-US| archive-date=January 9, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109054506/https://www.artencounter.com/product/glance-mirror-anthony-quinn/| url-status=dead}}</ref>

He wrote two memoirs, ''[[The Original Sin (book)|The Original Sin]]'' (1972) and ''One Man Tango'' (1997), a number of scripts, and a series of unpublished stories currently in the collection of his archive.