For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they're embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it's not something that I have talent for.

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• Stephen Sprouse:

  I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

• Stephen Sprouse:

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

• Stephen Sprouse:

  I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

• Stephen Sprouse:

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

• Stephen Sprouse:

  I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

• Stephen Sprouse:

  When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

• Stephen Sprouse:

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

• Stephen Sprouse:

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

• Stephen Sprouse:

  But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a

• Stephen Sprouse:

  I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make t