I was always interested in drawing and painting. I…

I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with…

— Leonard Nimoy

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't…

— Ad Reinhardt

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

— Chai Lu

I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South…

— Claes Oldenburg

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed…

— Nancy Spero

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics,…

— Jeffrey Brown

I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until…

— Julie Dillon

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

— Stuart Franklin

“Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century…

— John Banville

“Charles Snow had been as spiritually curious as a fence post, and Pete doubted that his father had ever changed in any meaningful way,…

— Smith Henderson

“Nine months ago, my mother died. This was the saddest, most painful time of my life, but somehow unexpected laughter managed to eke its…

— Meredith Spidel

Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.

— James Haven

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

— Koichi Tanaka

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart…

— Amy Hempel