Quotes About Art

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I'm a painter in sound.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

I wanted to be a painter.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.