Being Quote by Wangechi Mutu

My first teenage holiday was spent touring the great art galleries of Europe after having been inspired by what I had seen on television.

— David Olusoga

I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South…

— David Byrne

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to…

— Marc Newson

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are…

— Duane Michals

I would go to the studio and then I'd go back on tour and then I would come off and go on. And so…

— Maisie Peters

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

— Annie Wersching

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 don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

— Jamie Hewlett

My days at the Studio sustain all the work that I do today. They gave me a sense of legacy, a sense of belonging,…

— Teresa Ruiz

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down…

— Adam Lambert

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of…

— Daniel Boone

I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that…

— Rick Heinrichs