John Dyer Quotes

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

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.

I wanted to be a painter.

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

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.

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

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

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.