Dianne Reeves Quotes

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

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

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

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.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I want to bring art into everything.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

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.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!