Emma Healey Quotes

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

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

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

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

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

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

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

Generally, I move in the direction of art.