Age Quote by Kara Walker

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to…

— Sigmar Polke

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

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

— Alexander McQueen

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we…

— Lisa Frank

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

— Shawna Thompson

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at…

— Roy Lichtenstein

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

— Yolanda King

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

— Kurt Cobain

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where…

— Alec Monopoly

My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world…

— Bran Ferren

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

My very earliest memories are of watching my father study - he had his stack of law books on the kitchen table while I…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson