Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

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

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

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

I want to bring art into everything.

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

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.

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

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

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

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

I believe in art.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

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.

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

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

I love to paint.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.