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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. -- Joni Mitchell
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. -- Alice Cooper
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me. -- Damon Wayans, Jr.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts. -- Stephen Graham
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living. -- Nick Park
After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess. -- Anthony Browne
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. -- Roger Deakins
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing. -- Sade Adu
I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college. -- Imelda May
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. -- Michael Ironside
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way. -- P. J. Harvey
At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London. -- Jamie Muir
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. -- Freddie Mercury
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. -- Mia Wasikowska
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art. -- Stephen Sprouse
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. -- Douglas Coupland
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. -- Larry Gagosian
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. -- Natalie Babbitt
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously. -- Jeff Smith
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. -- Len Wein
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. -- Janet Echelman
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer. -- Marc Almond
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. -- Kami Garcia
Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers. -- Boy George
When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun. -- John Currin
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it. -- Larry Gagosian
Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out. -- John Kindness
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. -- Robert Adams
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981. -- Hamish Bowles
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened. -- Roger Deakins
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. -- James Green Somerville
When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant. -- Noel Fielding

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