Art school Quotes

It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.

— Timothy Morton

I went to art school when I was little.

— Amanda Seyfried

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

— Joni Mitchell

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

— Ross Bleckner

I went to beauty school, not art school.

— Hunx

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

— David Bailey

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.

— Kyle Gass

I love an art-school girl. I mean... don't we all?

— Theophilus London

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

I was supposed to go to art school, and my father wanted me to go to law school.

— Mike Espy

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

— John Waite

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

— Sigourney Weaver

“Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.”

— Ted Orland

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

— George Carlin

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

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time…

— Caio Fonseca

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who…

— Aleksandra Mir

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who…

— Alex Hirsch

When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion…

— Cynthia Rowley

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody…

— Peter Capaldi

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni,…

— King Krule

I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go…

— Malcolm Mclaren

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for…

— Jane Campion

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just…

— Bruce Nauman

I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free…

— Julie Dillon

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at…

— Robbie Coltraine

I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll…

— Kehinde Wiley

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to…

— Caio Fonseca

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I…

— Robert Redford

Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to…

— Jerry Saltz

I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth…

— Paul Smith

“When I was in art school, we were looking one day at a slide of some great fifteenth century painting, and one…

— Paul Graham

When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China,…

— Michael Craig-Martin

“This could be your big ticket,” he said. “You know what happens to you at art school?” I shook my head. “All…

— Steve Hamilton

I went to an art school, so I was a choir boy.

— Raymond Ablack