Boris Vallejo Quotes

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.

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

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

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.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I have so much love for art.

When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.