Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. "

Related Quotes:

" But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. "

" We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. "

" You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. "

" Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. "

" I prefer living in color. "

" I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. "

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

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

" Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. "

" It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. "

" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington. "

" People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. "

" I value my friends. "

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

" 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. "

" I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. "

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

" I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. "

" A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. "

" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "

" It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. "

" Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. "

" 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. "

" Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. "

" Anything simple always interests me. "

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

" There are enough no smoking places now. "

" You must plan to be spontaneous. "

" I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. "

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