Buying Quote by Nigel Dennis

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

— Alice Englert

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

— Ralph Bakshi

I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics…

— Michael Chabon

Painting was always something I thought I'd do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away…

— Anh Do

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile…

— Claude Monet

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to…

— Garry Winogrand

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out…

— Janet Fish

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more…

— Martin Mull

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

— Martin Mull

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never…

— Dennis Hopper

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

— Herb Ritts