Bill Griffith Quotes

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

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 wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

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

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

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

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

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

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.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

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

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

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

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.