David Bailey Quotes

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

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 was never a good artist.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

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.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

Art can only be taught by artists.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

I believe in art.

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

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

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

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

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

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.