Decided Quote by John Dyer

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite…

— John Lithgow

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

— Dennis Hopper

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 was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

— Jeff Koons

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

I wanted to be a painter.

— Max Cannon

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you…

— Peter Doig

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

— Ad Reinhardt

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey