Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it. "

Related Quotes:

" But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. "

" I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. "

" I've always felt very English. "

" In my old age, I'll be in L.A. "

" Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! "

" Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. "

" I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. "

" A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. "

" And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. "

" I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. "

" The moment rules over everything. "

" The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. "

" I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. "

" I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. "

" It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. "

" Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. "

" I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. "

" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "

" As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. "

" I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. "

" Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. "

" I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. "

" The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. "

" I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. "

" People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. "

" I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. "

" I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. "

" In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. "