Competition Quote by Alice Levine

I remember one time in my junior year, in my art class, our teacher had us doing, like, finger paints, and I went and…

— CC Sabathia

“I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and small, like…

— Tom Wolfe

“I wore a blue silk Brunswick jacket, close-fitting and edged with dark fur, and a matching petticoat, both quilted with a pattern of diamonds…

— Susan Holloway Scott

I was voted most artistic in school.

— Ryan McGinley

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on…

— John Dyer

My school entered a competition to perform a short play at the National Theatre. We won, I got scouted and I haven't looked back…

— Dylan Llewellyn

I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.

— Simone Giertz

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

— Claire Forlani

My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

— Jan Vogler

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third,…

— Douglass North

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

— Fred Williams

At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.

— Philip Glenister