Dick Bruna Quotes

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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

I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.