All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.
I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.