Art Quote by Kehinde Wiley

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

— George Gamow

I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

— Armie Hammer

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

— Kehinde Wiley

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

— Armie Hammer

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

— Ma Jian

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I went to Sheffield to study Russian and came back and had six months trying to work out what to do next.

— Tim Key

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4…

— William Klein

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

— Anastasia Soare

At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and…

— Sophie Dahl