Hasan M. Elahi Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

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

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

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.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

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.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Art is a continuum.

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

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

I paint. I love the visual arts.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.