Terry Gross Art Quotations

I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.