Grandfather Quote by Michael Portillo

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.

— Jonathan Anderson

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking…

— Vic Mensa

My father did advertising photography.

— Andreas Gursky

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New York skyline…

— Amy Macdonald

My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II,…

— David Salle

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age…

— John Dyer

Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where…

— Michael Portillo

My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly…

— Sherwood Anderson

My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't earn a…

— Mark Bonnar

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

— Erica Jong