Art Quote by Steve Kaufman

Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has…

— Owen Wilson

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad…

— Brian Blessed

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson.…

— Kehinde Wiley

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

— Benjamin West

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

— Lee Iacocca

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko - I…

— Roisin Murphy

I got to meet Keith Moon!

— Rick Nielsen

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

— William Eggleston

'An Audience With Kenneth Williams.' My wife and I went with him to the recording. He was paid £10,000, the largest fee he had…

— Gyles Brandreth

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal