Graham Coxon Quotes

Art can only be taught by artists.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

My high school art teacher was the best in the world.

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.

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.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

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

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

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.

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