Victor Hugo Quotes

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.

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

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.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

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

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I just wanna be a good artist.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

The best of any artist is in their art.

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

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

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

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

I believe in art.

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

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