Building Quote by William Wegman

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am…

— John Constable

From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers…

— Augusta Savage

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

— Brian Sandoval

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological…

— Anonymous

In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant…

— Josh Jones

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I…

— Johnny Depp

I was always stealing 40-gallon drums off the road at night, bringing them back to the workshop and cutting them up with a gas…

— Niki Caro

I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow…

— Joseph Brodsky

Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two)…

— William Styron

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach…

— Toni Morrison

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

— Anonymous