22 Quotes by Stephen Sprouse

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

And I got permission to leave school since I got a job with him in the city, which was fine with me because I wanted to he away from Rhode Island.

It's actually rock, art and then fashion, sort of in that order. That's why I like rock and roll, because I can mix all those arts.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

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.

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.