David Bailey Quotes

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

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

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.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

I dreamed of being an artist.

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

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

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

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.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

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

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I draw plays every day.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

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

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.