1970s Quote by Cornelia Parker

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a…

— Willard Wigan

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do…

— Anonymous

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative…

— Gauri Khan

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

— Fred Tomaselli

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something…

— Reggie Watts

I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images…

— Robert Longo

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

— Giorgio Moroder

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

— Joy Mangano

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

— Helen McCrory

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

— David Hockney

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would…

— John Baldessari