Diane English Quotes

There is nothing new in art except talent.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

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.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I used to draw a lot.

I was never a good artist.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

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

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.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

I believe in art.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.