Ambivalent Quote by Eric Fischl

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix…

— Beth Moore

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

— Corey Feldman

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of…

— Justine Kurland

I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically…

— Eve Ensler

I had a very rough upbringing.

— Robert Snodgrass

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

— Felix de Weldon

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

— Lily Allen

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

— Steven Spielberg

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends…

— Drew Barrymore

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the…

— Jerry Saltz

My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

— Assata Shakur