James Gray Quotes

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

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

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 originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

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

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

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

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.

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

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

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 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.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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.

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

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.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.