Dasha Zhukova Quotes

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

I really prize and love great painting.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I'm a huge art buff.

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

I'm an artist at heart.

I want to know art.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

I have a strong art-history background.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.