Art Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want…

— Meredith Monk

I knew my whole life that I had to make ends meet or I would be ashamed of myself. I had a lot of…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted…

— Rita Ora

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to…

— Harry Connick, Jr

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

— Faye Dunaway

I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I…

— Jane Lynch

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up…

— Matt Bomer

My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I…

— Gregory Porter

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

I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life. As my…

— Dan Fogelman