“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.” WorldMindHandsKidsYoungArtistTeacherCollegeTrainingTheaterIncrediblesBrilliantBunchAround The WorldYoung Minds Author:Joe Manganiello
“I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. Oh, Im trying to choose my next project. This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college.” PeopleThinkingTryingSometimesKidsJobsArtistNextCollegeReadyProjectsOur FamilyProfileHigh Profile Author:Michael Cudlitz
“People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.” PeopleKnowsWayKindArtistStarsCausesRiskCollegeKeysLowsManagementWho I AmSuitsLegendsWornConsultantsLow Key Author:John Legend
“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
“You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.” WorldCountryPlayArtistJesusChristCollegeSourceDrugConsciousJesus ChristRapDrivenSupposed To BeArenaMosesCritiqueKrishnaAdvocatingMtvRap ArtistConscious Rap Author:KRS-One
“I was shaped in college into a performance artist. I never really thought of myself as being one singular thing. I think of myself as an artist and I feel no restrictions when it comes to how I want to portray what I want to portray.” ThinkingWantFeelsArtistCollegePerformancesRestriction Author:Jillian Hervey
“The cool thing about college tours is you make friends with a lot of other artists because the schools come in and they're looking to make a diverse grouping together and then it works out for everyone.” SchoolTogetherArtistCollegeWork OutDiverseCool Things Author:Hoodie Allen
“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
“I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.” ThinkingLooksArtEndsArtistCollegeDecidedSophisticatedMisunderstanding Author:Gavin Turk
“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.” GivingIdeasBodyArtistFoundNamesMy OwnInterestingEffectsObjectsCollegeStrangeForeignersMaking UpFound Objects Author:Gavin Turk
“Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.” WayFirstsSometimesHardArtistCollegeGradesMotivatedDisrespectNew MusicNew Artists Author:DJ Quik
“When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip” FirstsCountryYoungArtistChangedCollegeInvolvedHipsShirtsAmazedTabooStigmaCampusThings Have ChangedCollege CampusCountry Artist Author:Eric Church
“I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.” Has BeensIdeasSchoolArtistDecisionAttentionCollegeHigh SchoolPerformingVisualsVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:Josh Young
“The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.” PeopleIfsWritingDifferentHardWould BeArtistGuyLaughingGroupsCollegeGeniusPaperPerformancesHonestlyPapersJackassesBards Author:Louis C. K.
“I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to college. But I didn't really think about it, or about making money. I was just going to be an artist, and I've been fortunate. I've never had to work for anybody nor have I had to write for money. Maybe that's another reason that I've been able to be productive. I haven't had to use my writing to make a living.” ThinkingWritingFirstsBookStatesReasonUseAbleSchoolArtistClassHavensCollegeProductsMaking MoneyFortunateProductiveWorking Class Author:T.C. Boyle
“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
“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
“In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.” WantWellsWantedArtistCausesCollegeOkaySongwritersNashville Author:PJ Harvey
“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 wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.” YearsSchoolArtistCollegeHigh SchoolSeniorBeing An ArtistSenior Year Author:Ab-Soul
“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
“She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.” BookRealHomeDreamBigsKidsAbleWantedArtistReadingPathFansCollegeBecomingConsciousSevenRadioMotherhoodThanksLeftiesStudsGreat Fans Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.” PeopleWantWellsTwoDifferentUseSeemsTogetherArtistUniverseSocialCollegeAthleteSensitiveCharacteristicsCandidatesSelflessRulersNerdDifferent PeoplesExclusiveSocial NetworkGregariousWell RoundedStudious Author:Rebecca Goldstein