“[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.” KnowsArtMadeMatterTogetherMotherActorsTeacherTelevisionCollegeBrotherHeroNo Matter WhatSingersProducersMy BrotherAlways BelieveRipOlder BrotherArt Teacher Author:Billy Crystal
“I barely slept during high school because I was too busy dancing and acting all the time. The plan was to go to my dream college that had one of the best performing arts programs, and then go to LA to follow my dream of being an actress.” ArtDreamSchoolActingPlansCollegeHigh SchoolProgramDancingBusyActressesPerformingToo BusyPerforming Arts Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of teaching days and practically the only person who showed up was David Cunningham [Flying Lizard's main man], with all of this finished work” MenPersonsArtSaidArtistGroupsTeachingCollegeCoupleFinishedFlyingVideoBrokeDepartmentHallsLizardsPlacementFinished WorkCunninghams Author:David Toop
“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.” WritingFirstsWellsArtRealityYoungNovelGrowing UpGrowingCollegeIndiaFilledTrippy Author:Karan Bajaj
“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.” MindDoeArtSoulHelpingPastWalksPiecesStudentsCollegeArchitectureUrgentExpressive Author:Louis Kahn
“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 college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.” WorldArtTwoArtistCollegeTheoryGenreToneAll The BestBest Art Author:Micah Perks
“I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.” ArtJobsEnergyInterestTeacherStudentsCollegeProgramVisualsMaryIntroducingFlashAnimation Author:St. Lucia
“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 my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.” LittlesArtStillsSchoolArtistAbilityTeacherTalentCollegeLessonsHigh SchoolAppreciateBlueVery GoodEnthusiasmLandscapeTeensHungPortraitsEarnestEccentricRibbonsRenderingStill LifeArt TeacherWatercolorsSalieri Author:Christina Baker Kline
“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
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon