Stephen Sprouse Quotes


"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Being)

"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, Building, Clothes, Photography)

"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Friend, Clothes)

"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Clothes)

"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, Fashion, Favorite)

"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, College, Fashion)

"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Television)

"I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture."
- Stephen Sprouse
"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, People, Control, Clothes)

"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Columbus)

"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Art, Music, Time, People, Fashion, Television)

"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Architecture, Time, Fashion, School, Summer)

"I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to."
- Stephen Sprouse
"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
- Stephen Sprouse
(Related: Design, School)