Bob Beamon Quotes

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

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

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I did painting before I did photography.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.