Source Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Paul Smith

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Paul Smith

When life closes a door, God opens a window.

— Paul Smith