Art Quote by Edmonia Lewis

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a…

— Chrissie Hynde

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went…

— Robert Redford

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize…

— Edward Ruscha

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the…

— David Maisel

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

— David Byrne

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close…

— Chris Ofili

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother…

— Frida Giannini

Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative…

— Mary Pope Osborne

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all… Eventually I…

— Sophia Loren

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

— St. Lucia

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

— Thomas Reid

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

— Ben Whishaw