Art Quote by Dennis Hopper

Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was the world…

— Jason Blum

One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and…

— Jared Leto

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for…

— David LaChapelle

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

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting,…

— Neil Farber

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second…

— Tony Curtis

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Roger Deakins

My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to…

— Goldie

I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated.…

— Stuart Franklin

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I…

— Bill Paxton