“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.” LongArtWholeAbleSchoolMovingTeacherArt School Author:Lou Doillon
“I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.” ThinkingArtSelfSometimesHappensSchoolFilmBitsTaughtCreaturesApproachFilmmakerUnusualAngleAnimationArt SchoolFilm SchoolSelf Taught Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.” ShouldBelieveArtSchoolArtistDon't BelievePhotographerPainterLabelsTitlesSculptorsArt SchoolSchool Education Author:Peter Lindbergh
“I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.” PeopleArtSchoolArtistCareersCollegePaintingTypeInternetDrawingThanksVarietyNoticingArt SchoolFree TimeCollege LifeMaking A LivingDrawing And Painting Author:Julie Dillon
“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.” IfsArtImportantHardHappensSchoolArtistCertainUniverseFeltCreativeTaughtPaintingDisciplineSkillsUniqueStandardsGainsAcademicArt SchoolDraftingImmersing YourselfAcademic Standards Author:John Dyer Baizley
“It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.” FeelsKindArtSometimesHardKidsSchoolFitPagesHigh SchoolExcitedGreat ThingsOddArt School Author:Anthony Mackie
“It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.” IfsArtIdeasDifferentSchoolGirlStuffCarDadProjectsJailWeekendNormArt SchoolYour DadArt Projects Author:Anthony Mackie
“That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.” IfsKnowsWayArtFeelingsRealitySchoolSpeakLevelsNotionStorytellingVisualsArt SchoolSchool Education Author:Jane Campion
“Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.” PeopleWorldArtSchoolArtistUnderstandingGoneDenialLegacyHumanistExposedMainstreamPublishingEngagingModernismArt SchoolAvant Garde Author:Tommy McCarthy
“I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.” NeedsArtBodySchoolLeftBitsActingNeededDramaClubsLondonEveningComprehensiveQualificationsArt SchoolDiplomaDrama Club Author:Joe Wright
“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.” YearsArtSchoolSixteenArt SchoolSixteen Year Olds Author:David Hockney
“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsMeanArtMadeSelfMomentsBigsWantedSchoolExpressionHugeAmountArt IsDecidedIntentionFedsEmphasisSelf ExpressionArt SchoolArt Education Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.” ArtSchoolArtistGuyWrittenInstitutionsMagazinesOutsidersArt SchoolInsiders Author:David Shrigley
“In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.” IfsWayArtWantedSchoolMovingProcessCan DoTeachStruggleWetKeep MovingArt SchoolJust Keep Moving Author:Laura Owens
“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.” PeopleArtMomentsWantedSchoolCultureLeftDecidedPopular CultureArt School Author:Aleksandra Mir
“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.” ArtWantedSchoolArtistDrivenParadiseArt School Author:Sean Scully
“I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.” WorldWayArtWantedSchoolFormSocialProduceBuildingDecidedArchitectureI RealizedSatisfiedVehicleFulfilledArt SchoolRamifications Author:David Adjaye
“I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.” ArtSchoolSmokeGet MoneyArt School Author:Joni Mitchell
“My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of working at an exciting art school also spills over into my studio work. I believe most artists are adept at juggling multiple responsibilities - whether it's work, teaching, caring for family members or attending to relationships - with their studio commitment.” BelieveArtSchoolArtistI BelievePresidentResponsibilityInfluenceTeachingDutyMembersCommitmentExcitingStudiosCaringPainterMultipleSpillsFamily MembersAttendingArt SchoolJugglingAdept Author:Stephen Beal
“I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.” PeopleArtMomentsSchoolTake TimeArt SchoolArt History Author:Agathe Snow
“I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.” ArtIdeasKidsSchoolStuffModernStupidConservativeArt SchoolVery StupidStupid Conservative Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“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.” FeelsTryingPersonsArtDreamSchoolTalentObviousMatureUsualArt SchoolMature Person Author:Frances Stark
“It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.” PeopleArtMightSchoolTurnsLots Of MoneyArt School Author:Wade Guyton
“I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.” FeelsArtHelpingFeelingsSchoolArtistGuyNextFeltMy OwnElementsArt SchoolDynamism Author:Jack Kirby
“I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.” IfsWorldArtDifferentWould BeSchoolWonderArt SchoolTurned Down Book:Brain Droppings Source: Brain Droppings
“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.” ArtPlaySchoolSongTeachingMonthsSixSingingFolksSix MonthsBeltsArt SchoolNovicesUkuleleFolk SongsBaritones Author:Joni Mitchell
“I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!” ThinkingArtStillsKidsSchoolGivenBlackLandDramaTrainingVisualsDancerNightmareThis DayArt SchoolVisual ArtTightsWearing Black Author:Jake Epstein
“I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.” ArtSchoolChurchGroupsBloodGrewGrew UpSingingPerformingChoirArt SchoolPerforming Arts Author:Tweet
“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.” ArtEndsEnoughSchoolTaughtArt IsSakeExpress YourselfArt School Author:Eric Drooker
“I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.” ArtSchoolPaintingImpressionCartoonArt School Author:Roz Chast
“After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.” KnowsKindArtShowsHomeSchoolCareersGroupsLuckyTestsStoresMinimumGalleryFinishingMinimum WageArt SchoolWalmart Author:Marcel Dzama
“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.” IfsLooksArtSchoolDifficultBreakPaintingDutyDrawsFemaleExcitingWesternMalesUpsetFridayTabooTuesdayArt School Author:Peter Greenaway
“I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.” ArtSchoolJazzPopsPop MusicArt School Author:Norah Jones
“The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.” PeopleKnowsTryingWellsMeanArtSeemsWould BeSchoolTurnsPaintingIdealsArt School Author:Lawrence Weiner
“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.” ArtWantedSchoolBandArt SchoolInternships Author:Gerard Way
“I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management or acting. I thought, "I don't want to be an actor, but I know production and stage management take acting classes" - this is literally my internal monologue. I was like, "Designers don't have to take acting classes. Cool. I'll check that box".” KnowsWantArtSaidSchoolActorsActingClassStageDesignManagementProductionsBoxesChecksDesignerInternalsArt SchoolMonologuesActing ClassesChecklistsProduction Design Author:James Pearse Connelly
“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.” ArtFactsMightSchoolGoneHappenedStreetsProgramCousinAvenuesInstituteArt SchoolMy CousinBuffaloPrivate School Author:Paul Smith
“I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional.” ThinkingWellsArtAbleSchoolArtistFallMy OwnWalksKnownStreetsAreasProgramLocalsFacultyApartmentWell KnownCousinJuneAvenuesInstituteArt SchoolBlairMy CousinGis Author:Paul Smith
“I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.” ArtSchoolCreativityMusicalPerformingArt SchoolPerforming Arts Author:Alycia Debnam Carey
“I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.” WayKindLittlesArtBookWarBigsSchoolReadingAsksStudentsLateLowsEuropeMedicalFranceAsk MeParisReading BooksSectionsClueColonyArt SchoolBohemianLittle MoneyMedical School Author:Robert Redford
“I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.” KnowsWantArtDifferentWantedSchoolFilmInterestDadDirectorsMy DadBunchVisualsGutsDifferent ThingsArt SchoolVisual ArtFilm Set Author:Sofia Coppola
“When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.” ChildrenArtSaidKidsSchoolArtistLeftBrainStruggleCollegeSonPleaseMajorsHigh SchoolMathAcceptedMy ChildrenMy SonDisappointedCapabilityArt SchoolAdvisorsLeft And RightBeing Accepted Author:Frank Gehry
“When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.” PeopleThinkingNeedsArtImportantProblemBigsSchoolIndividualSpeakDifficultNumbersTeachCreativeSawsTeacherStudentsActivityMassChinaEnormousContactContinuityArt SchoolTeacher And Student Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.” ArtSchoolNumbersStudentsPeriodsBritishContactArt School Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.” FirstsArtSchoolClassDrawingArt School Author:Kehinde Wiley
“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.” ThinkingArtMatterKidsSchoolTogetherStreetsBrotherTwinsArt SchoolTwin Brother Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll become closer to this index that I'm referring to. Because what you want is this card that relates to that book. What you want is this human that relates to this world, rather than having this art school society scattering that point of view somewhere in between. It becomes diffused. And that level of clarity, I think, was gained at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” ThinkingWorldWantHumansArtBookAbleSchoolLinesLevelsViewsThis WorldStudiosPoint Of ViewWhat You WantCardsClarityRelateMuseumsReferringArt SchoolHarlem Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.” LongArtRunningSchoolFeltStuffBandEmbraceCome UpArt School Author:Gerard Way
“I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.” YearsArtSchoolPaintArt School Author:Chath Piersath
“The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.” ArtSchoolTeachArt School Author:David Bailey