John Waters Quotes

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is taken up by a mural of the end of Toy Story 3.

Easel painting means small painting.

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

I'm an artist at heart.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

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.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

When I was little, my parents took me to the San Diego Zoo. I was about 5 years old, and I got a tour of the zoo that hardly anybody else has ever had.

I was 6 when communism was finished.

I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.