“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.” WantedFatherHouseGrowing UpGrowingTalentPaintingPaintCornersPainterBoredKnocking Author:Markus Zusak
“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.” ArtDifferentKidsGrowing UpGrowingPaintingAspectDrawingDifferent ThingsFreakControl FreakKids Growing UpDrawing And PaintingMovies And Music Author:Rob Zombie
“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.” YearsWellsDoeHas BeensArtBookDifferentArtistFatherKnownGrowing UpGrowingEffectsPaintingPaintWell Known Author:John Dyer
“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ThinkingChildrenProblemLyingArtistHouseGrowing UpRecordsGrowingPaintingProductsSolveFinishedVisibleAdmirationExposedDefiniteChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Robin G. Collingwood
“I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.” WorldArtDoneFeelingsEyeFormGrowingProgressModernPaintingPhotographyRelatedSculptureTempoModern ScienceBest Art Book:Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs