K.C. Dyer Quotes

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

A normal fight is thirty seconds of rolling around on the floor, scrapping, that's what it is. It's not rolling over boxes or getting punched through windows.

You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.

I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.

I don't believe my own hype, I just take each day as it comes. And I always feel blessed.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.

The one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of the coherent themes. They're very, very skeptical about Iran.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.

I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

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

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.

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

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.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

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 have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

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.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

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

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.