Antonio Quote by Oscar de la Renta

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

— Andre Leon Talley

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

— Bruce Chatwin

In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

— Melvyn Bragg

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had…

— Maria Cornejo

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…

— Paul Smith

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

— Hilary Farr

I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I joined the Young Philanthropists Circle at the Musee Des Beaux Arts, we have little events every month where you learn about a different…

— Tessa Virtue

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition,…

— Patricia Piccinini

The real art of what we do, at least back in the old-school days, was improv. If you were a great worker, you were…

— Ted DiBiase Sr

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

— Anonymous