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I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation of cloth…

— St. Lucia

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest…

— Ann Demeulemeester

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

— Dennis Hopper

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

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 was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition…

— Ben Shahn

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 spent my life making fashion an art form.

— Charles James

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be…

— Tom Ford

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I…

— Jane Seymour

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