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I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. -- Josef Albers
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art. -- David Bailey
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. -- Malcolm Mclaren
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. -- Yahoo Serious
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act. -- Kate Ashfield
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever. -- Lewis Black
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job. -- John Baldessari
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me. -- Sean Scully
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. -- Eric Carle
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold. -- Jonathan Winters
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique. -- Pete Townshend
I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas. -- Paloma Faith
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). -- Jerry Saltz
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. -- Nico Tortorella
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. -- Nick Cave
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans. -- Peter Capaldi
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside. -- Jeffrey Brown
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. -- Chris Ofili
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. -- Jane Campion
I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. -- Amanda Seyfried
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them. -- Jeff Koons
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. -- Malcolm Mclaren
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that. -- Brian Eno
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. -- Peter Zumthor
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. -- George Lucas
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts. -- Ian Anderson
Art-school girls are very nice. -- Anthony Mackie
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. -- Brad Holland
I went to art school when I was little. -- Amanda Seyfried
I love an art-school girl. I mean dont we all? -- Theophilus London
Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. -- Barbara Kruger
I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke. -- Joni Mitchell
The proper school to learn art is not life but art -- Oscar Wilde
A community of people, that's the really what art school is. -- Ross Bleckner
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts. -- Bernie Worrell
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. -- David Hockney
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best. -- Daniel Clowes
You canâ??t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms. -- Duane Michals
An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure. -- William Lethaby
I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York. -- Howard Pyle
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school. -- Kehinde Wiley
It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons. -- Prince Philip
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art. -- Ogden Nash
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. -- Angela Kinsey
I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. -- Iris Apfel
I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart. -- Iggy Azalea
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in. -- Kevin McCall
The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score. -- Ray Davies
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills. -- Ty Pennington
Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool -- KRS-One
I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. -- ASAP Ferg
I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. -- John Mayall
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. -- Philippe Petit
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. -- Jackie DeShannon
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. -- Caio Fonseca
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school. -- Christian Scriver
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. -- Ray Harryhausen
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. -- Jean Tinguely
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point. -- George Bellows
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler. -- Fred Tomaselli
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. -- Natalie Babbitt
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. -- Lynda Barry
I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art. -- Chath Piersath
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here. -- Urs Fischer
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. -- Alice Cooper
If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. -- Ridley Scott
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? -- Karen DeCrow
I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school. -- George Carlin
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act. -- Kate Ashfield
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. -- Maira Kalman
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can"¦. The art world is high school with money. -- Jerry Saltz
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting. -- Shirley Eaton
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
In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough. -- Eric Drooker
I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship. -- Ryan McGinley
Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. -- Andy Paula
Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi. -- Mark Kostabi
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
There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth -- John Merrow
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim." -- Ryan McGinley
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. -- Vera Wang
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.' -- Terry Teachout
Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers -- Daniel Clowes
During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. -- Horace Mann
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary. -- Kevin Munroe
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work. -- David LaChapelle
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality. -- John Currin
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 don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom. -- William Webb
I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life. -- Leo Fitzpatrick
I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental. -- Asif Kapadia
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment. -- Alex Lifeson
We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids. -- Tony Danza
I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level. -- John Dyer
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. -- Howard Hodgkin
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. -- Brian Eno
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
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. -- Mary Lynn Rajskub
I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them. -- Gerard Way
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form. -- Eric Christian Olsen
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it. -- Peter Capaldi
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred. -- Ai Weiwei
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. -- John Lennon
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together. -- Kehinde Wiley
The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. -- Lou Doillon
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff. -- Mark Alan Stamaty
Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture. -- Aleksandra Mir
I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school. -- Peter Beard
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer. -- Imogen Cunningham
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever. -- Martin Mull
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it. -- Henry Moore
It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically. -- Kiki Smith
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions. -- Chris Riddell
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos. -- Tony Scott
My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing. -- Frances Stark

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