P. J. Harvey Quotes

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

I visit a lot of art galleries. I live in Dublin and there's a very good gallery called the Kevin Kavanagh gallery.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I'm a huge art buff.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

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

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.

I have a BFA in illustration.