Art Quote by Amy Sherald

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

— Kehinde Wiley

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography…

— Robert Bateman

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

— Chris Ware

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really…

— Ryan McGinley

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to…

— David Rockefeller

My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.

— Dante Basco

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

— Jackie DeShannon

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

— Kurt Cobain

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a…

— Isabel Allende

My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to…

— Goldie

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

— Chath Piersath