John Dyer Quotes

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

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

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

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

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

Both my parents were painters.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

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

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

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