“Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for….”
Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown
Source: The Hero and the Crown
http://www.girlscantwhat.com/2007/10/15/i-am-my-own-experiment/ <br class="br">Variant: I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
“Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for….”
Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown
Source: The Hero and the Crown
Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) American artist
Arts and Architecture, vol. 68, no 9, September 1951, p. 21.
1950s
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) British visual artist
Mister Lowry- interview Tyne Tees Television 1968 L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
Tynes Tees Television Interview 1968
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-02_Bk.pdf, p. 266 <br class="br">1770s <br class="br">Context: Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve & abhor.
“I depict my life and experiences in my works of art.”
Otto Mueller (1874–1930) German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement
quoted by his sister Emmy Muellers in her 'Recollections'; as cited in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt; 2006 / new edition 2010, Books on Demand, GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany - ISBN:978-3-8448-6866-1
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Egoism" as quoted by Amy Lowell, "Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917)