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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a... BAT FOR LASHES
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's... BEN AFFLECK My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like th...
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about... DIANE ARBUS
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ... DIANE ARBUS
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things abou... DIANE ARBUS
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather, WINSTON CHURCHILL
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. CHUCK BERRY
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and... LEE CHILD I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography ...
BEN SHAHN
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s... MAYA LIN I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I&...
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an ap... ZOE SUGG
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore bot...
JOHN BALDESSARI
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art wo... KATHRYN BIGELOW
I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was fe... RUBY ROSE
(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to de... CHIP KIDD
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. CHUCK BERRY I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed beca...
ETHAN PECK
I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, ...
JAMIE WYETH
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. ... SUSAN VREELAND I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred...
WENDY FROUD I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to d...
BEN SHAHN Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt a...
JAMES MCGREEVEY I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader, WINSTON CHURCHILL
I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Chris... MIKE PENCE My grandfather used to take me down there and say, 'Why don't they do something with those things?'
KWAME KILPATRICK
As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who ha... TIMOTHY MURPHY
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photograp... VAL KILMER
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I be... EMMELINE PANKHURST After everything is said and done, a memory remains a treacherous thing…How long does one cling on...
KANZA JAVED
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do ... TRACY CHAPMAN I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit...
SARAH PARCAK
You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE
I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, s... EVA LONGORIA
In school he drew and painted and took art classes, and he was one of the better students. I assumed... MICHAEL DAVIS
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago ... WHITLEY STRIEBER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
I love photography, and I love the art of photography. HELEN MIRREN
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known o... DWAYNE JOHNSON
I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first chil... MONICA BELLUCCI
I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself. ZENDAYA
The sickened human is something to be experimented with. STEVEN MAGEE By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties d...
SIGMAR POLKE When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity o...
SIGMAR POLKE I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I ...
SIGMAR POLKE Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years...
SIGMAR POLKE Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is...
SIGMAR POLKE When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
SIGMAR POLKE There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
SIGMAR POLKE People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in t...
SIGMAR POLKE We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I...
SIGMAR POLKE I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.
DASHA ZHUKOVA
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father... HAROLD FEINSTEIN I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax ...
ROBERT INGPEN Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of...
SARA BAUME My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
BRETT DALTON
When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four son... JOHN LE CARRE
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I dispose... COMPTON GAGE
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains w... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polk... WOLFGANG TILLMANS Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a sale...
HERB RITTS
I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower... HOWIE MANDEL
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... JHUMPA LAHIRI I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who...
LISA LEE Why is it, I wonder, that Sigmar felt compelled to burden you with such poor imaginations? Very well...
DAVID GUYMER I have a wish list of directors I want to work with and Floria has been on that list for as long as ...
BERT YUKICH
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu... JANET JACKSON I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my fi...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER
When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min... HENRY B. EYRING
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re... ANNIE BESANT
Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my... ANDREA BOCELLI Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorp...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of... NICK CANNON
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook feat... KRISTINA MCMORRIS In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the m... AGNES GUND
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a b... SANDRA CISNEROS
After Rilke's Letters-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a...
DAVID FURNISH
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't... FRANK ABAGNALE My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ...
GENE HACKMAN My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL 'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I...
OLIVIA COOKE
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my ... BARRY MARSHALL
When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and... DOMENICO STARNONE
