Apples Quote by Charles Mingus

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with…

— Kadir Nelson

“Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art school later.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it,…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of…

— David LaChapelle

I do portraits - my dad's an artist.

— Fearne Cotton

I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings and paintings…

— Chloe Wise

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my…

— Virginia Woolf

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or…

— Seth Godin

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

— Dylan Lauren

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

— Shirley Eaton

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of…

— Brett Dalton