Art Quote by Fred Tomaselli

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out…

— Cornelia Parker

I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an…

— Claes Oldenburg

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

— Ty Pennington

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

I was always good at fixing things growing up. I wanted to work on boats. That was what my dad did.

— Finn Cole

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

— Mike Schultz

Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.

— Luke Hemsworth

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 was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing…

— Richard Donner

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at…

— Erykah Badu

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if…

— Bradley Walsh

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

— Ray Davies