“I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.” ThinkingFoundObjectsPaintingPhotographManipulateCropsFound Objects Author:Dennis Hopper
“I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.” ArtYoungPainting Author:Dennis Hopper
“I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.” KidsSchoolStuffPaintingHigh SchoolAbstract Author:Dennis Hopper
“I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.” PeopleKnowsHouseSawsPaintingAbstractCollectionsWholeheartedlyAbstract Painting Author:Dennis Hopper
“Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.” PaintingPhotographyFeds Author:Dennis Hopper
“Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldStillsStreetsThis WorldPaintingSellingBrokeApplesBuyingPencilsLoan Author:Dennis Hopper
“I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.” ArtPossibilityPaintingInvolvedPhotographContractsBrosWarner Bros Author:Dennis Hopper
“I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.” WayMadeArtistFunActingCitiesClassBoysMiddlePaintingPhotographyMiddle ClassFarmsFarmersGrandparentWheatBeing An ArtistDodgeBad Life Author:Dennis Hopper
