“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.” ArtKidsSchoolArtistActorsCollegeDirectorsBostonHybridArt SchoolMassachusetts Author:Arne Glimcher
“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.” ArtSchoolFunRealizingCollegePopsArt SchoolWarholPop Art Author:John Currin
“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
“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
“The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.” ThinkingArtSchoolSuccessfulToo MuchCollegeFineInvolvedBeing SuccessfulFine ArtsArt School Author:Syd Barrett
“In college I took an acting class as a joke. It sounded like something fun and easy at the time. I had originally wanted to go to art school, but I gave all that up because I didn't want to be a starving artist.” WantArtWantedSchoolArtistFunEasyActingClassCollegeJokesStarvingLike SomethingArt SchoolActing ClassesStarving Artist Author:Michael Graziadei