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It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.