Lily Cole Quotes

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

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I like making art.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

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

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

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

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

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

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I did painting before I did photography.

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!

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

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

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

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

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

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.