“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.” WantedFatherHouseGrowing UpGrowingTalentPaintingPaintCornersPainterBoredKnocking Author:Markus Zusak
“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.” ArtDifferentKidsGrowing UpGrowingPaintingAspectDrawingDifferent ThingsFreakControl FreakKids Growing UpDrawing And PaintingMovies And Music Author:Rob Zombie
“I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.” Has BeensArtTwoCultureGrowsGrowing UpModernPaintingTvsGrewGrew UpExcitedFarmsTextbooksArt HistoryModern ArtHistory Textbooks Author:Neil Farber
“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.” YearsWellsDoeHas BeensArtBookDifferentArtistFatherKnownGrowing UpGrowingEffectsPaintingPaintWell Known Author:John Dyer
“I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.” MotherArtistGrowsGrowing UpPaintingNakedHouseholdSculptureTabooNudity Author:Ingrid Michaelson
“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ThinkingChildrenProblemLyingArtistHouseGrowing UpRecordsGrowingPaintingProductsSolveFinishedVisibleAdmirationExposedDefiniteChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Robin G. Collingwood