My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free... just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.