"The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler."

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Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.

— Paul Smith