The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
My mother and father were interested in the arts.
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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 have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
The arts have always been in and around my life.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.