Artist Quote by Chuck Close

I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they cost a…

— David Starkey

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing…

— Dennis Hopper

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and…

— Chuck Close

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

— Chuck Close

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some…

— Chuck Close

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

— Chuck Close

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing…

— Richard LaGravenese

I started my blog back in 2009 because every Internet business and marketing seminar I watched at the time told me I had to.…

— Mark Manson

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

— Ryan Tedder

In my late teens and early 20s, I started selling mix CDs on the street.

— Flo Rida

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then…

— Shane Black

I started selling in the early '90s, because at 18 years old, it's tough to go to your parents and say, 'Can I have…

— John Dolmayan