Biography
Kataoka was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent her early childhood there. Her family moved to Washington D.C., United States, then onto Seattle and later to Silicon Valley. She attended high school at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, CA and college at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. She began her art education in Sumi-e early in Japan and later in the US, earning her han (signature stamp) from Sensei M. Iseke. She is based in Silicon Valley, California but also travels extensively to New York, Tokyo and Europe.
Read more about this topic: Drue Kataoka
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)
“As we approached the log house,... the projecting ends of the logs lapping over each other irregularly several feet at the corners gave it a very rich and picturesque look, far removed from the meanness of weather-boards. It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments ... a style of architecture not described by Vitruvius, I suspect, though possibly hinted at in the biography of Orpheus.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)