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I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

— Shirley Eaton

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute…

— Robert Indiana

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather…

— Robert Longo

I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point,…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards,…

— Tony Kaye

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one…

— John Dyer

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

— Henri Matisse

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

— Natalie Babbitt

I was quite successful as a make-up artist for 23 years, doing a lot of prosthetics.

— Dave Myers

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

— Dennis Hopper