William Allan Quotes

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

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.

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 would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

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

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I wanted to be a painter.

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

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

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.