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title: "2 Buffalo Quotes By Paul Smith"
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> [Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/fortunately-i-had-cousins-who-lived-in-buffalo-and-would-often-go-to/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/paul-smith-10839_big-cities_fortunately-i-had-cousins-who-lived-in-b_361199.png)

> [Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/jack-sturtzer-one-of-my-cousins-had-gone-to-art-school-and-suggested/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

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## Other authors on Buffalo

## More by Paul Smith

> [I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/i-became-a-bit-of-a-teacher-s-pet-and-it-became-known-in-the-school/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/i-ve-always-been-a-keen-cyclist-i-m-very-close-to-the-world-of/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/i-learned-from-books-that-i-picked-up-that-was-something-that-just/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/at-the-end-of-the-elementary-program-i-then-had-to-move-onto-high/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/you-can-find-inspiration-in-everything-if-you-can-t-then-you-re-not/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/i-think-i-was-really-na-ve-i-had-no-context-to-think-about-what-i/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/one-association-with-the-arts-that-i-vividly-remember-was-a-magazine/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [ The class situation \[at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue\] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/the-class-situation-at-art-institute-on-elmwood-avenue-was-such-that/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/fortunately-i-had-cousins-who-lived-in-buffalo-and-would-often-go-to/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/i-was-painting-furniture-learning-to-stencil-and-explore-all-kinds-of/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/at-one-point-i-had-dreams-of-being-in-the-school-band-but-i-didn-t/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [When life closes a door, God opens a window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/when-life-closes-a-door-god-opens-a-window/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/my-parents-never-prevented-me-from-doing-anything-but-they-didn-t/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/being-born-in-31-was-during-the-depression-and-in-my-earlier-youth/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

> [In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-smith/in-a-social-studies-class-i-did-a-paper-on-the-history-of-attica/)

[Paul Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-smith/)

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