Art Quote by Ron Ben-Israel

I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

— Mary Oliver

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their…

— Natalie Kusz

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we…

— Lisa Frank

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

— Ellar Coltrane

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

— Zoe Cassavetes

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

— Kurt Cobain

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

— Meredith Brooks

Both my parents were painters.

— Jason Momoa

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

— David Mixner

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

— Haley Bennett