David Bailey Quotes

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled at by my teachers, get my drawings taken away. That stuff happened all the time.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.