Takeshi Kitano Quotes

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

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

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

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I just wanna be a good artist.

People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting.

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

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.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

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