I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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