Ruggero Leoncavallo Quotes

I have so much love for art.

From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

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.

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

I need art around me always.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

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.

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.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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

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

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

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

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.

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.

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.