Jenny Holzer Quotes

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

I paint. I love the visual arts.

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.

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

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

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

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

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

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

I believe in art.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can't. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

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.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

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

I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.