Always Quote by Dante Basco

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

— John Lasseter

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

— Kehinde Wiley

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 mum is a big collector of art.

— Agnes Obel

My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.

— Jason Becker

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

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

— David Rockefeller

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

— Chris Ware

My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world…

— Bran Ferren

Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were kids. I…

— Jeff Vespa

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

— Ken Adam

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

— Hilton Als