Art Quote by Bill Griffith

My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of…

— Rainer Weiss

My father always fostered creativity, and he has always encouraged me and my mom and my sister to create things.

— Julio Torres

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

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

My mother recognized my artistic talent and looked for someone to teach me to grow my abilities. She found an artist on the street…

— Peter Max

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

— Carlisle Floyd

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

— Meredith Brooks

I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.

— Peter Heller

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

— Hugh Leonard

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

— David Rockefeller

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was…

— Edmund White