Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

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

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

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

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.