57 Quotes by John Dyer

St Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

It was a close game the entire time. They tied it up in the second half and then we traded points for a while. With five minutes left we took the lead for good.

I am not so keen on modern yachts because they are predominantly white. I am lucky to live in Falmouth because of the variety of boats on the water.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.