Certain Quote by Helmut Lang

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a…

— Gustave Courbet

When I was a child, I used to help my mother decorate our house and prepare an elaborate spread of pretty lamps and flower…

— Amrapali Gupta

You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you by things…

— Robert Greene

When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us.…

— David Linley

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

— Dries van Noten

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of…

— Natasha Trethewey

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who…

— Jill Scott

I wanted to do something that gave my life meaning and purpose.

— Ed McCaffrey

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Jason Becker

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

— Tony Robinson