Ben Whishaw Quotes

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

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 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 want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

I wanted to be a painter.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

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

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 haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

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.

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

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.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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

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

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.