Accepting Quote by Ai Weiwei

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make…

— Wade Guyton

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of…

— John Currin

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to…

— Jeffrey Brown

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really…

— Ryan McGinley

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to…

— John Kindness

“the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that…

— David Sedaris

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you…

— Grayson Perry

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

— Janet Echelman

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

— Ben Eine

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

— Sigourney Weaver

I didn't go to art school. I was a basketball scholarship, student-athlete, and both my parents were in the military. I had a very…

— RaMell Ross

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

— Chaka Khan