Art Quote by Paul Smith

“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators — it’s…

— Quentin Blake

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking…

— Vic Mensa

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He…

— Jeff Vespa

We weren't art students, but we definitely created our own style and were pretty influenced by Andy Warhol and all the stuff we read…

— Fred Schneider

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on…

— Graham Coxon

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

— Warren MacKenzie

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

— Bill Griffith

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what…

— Bill Viola

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

My high school art teacher was the best in the world.

— Bud Luckey

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested…

— Roy Lichtenstein

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer