Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

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.

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

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

I just wanna be a good artist.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

The artist is called a creator.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.