J. G. Ballard Quotes

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.

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 love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

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

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

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

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

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

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.

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

I dreamed of being an artist.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

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.

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

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.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.