Art Quote by Frank McCourt

My parentage set me up to want to make a life of my own in the arts, but also contributed to my feeling a…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was…

— Jacob Epstein

I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want…

— Sandra Cisneros

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 grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And…

— Wallace Shawn

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any…

— Graham Swift

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang…

— Jessye Norman

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into…

— Alice Temperley

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

— David Mixner