A biography for Jonathan Wintershasn’t been written yet.
“I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.”
“My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.”
“As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.”
“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.”