'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.
From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
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