Aaron Huey Quotes

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

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'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

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

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

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

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

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'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?'

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

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

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

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

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.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

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

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I paint abstract expressions.