College Quote by Chris Ofili

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art…

— Jean Dubuffet

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

— Roger Deakins

I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now that, with…

— Heart Evangelista

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

— Rebecca Miller

Painting from life was incredibly important for me because it allowed me to train my eyes to see everything that is there. But I…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

— Thomas Kinkade

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and…

— Christina Baker Kline

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium…

— John Dyer

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla