Artist Quote by Barbara Kruger

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

— Ab-Soul

I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never…

— Lynda Resnick

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None…

— Kali Uchis

When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was…

— Robert Redford

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if…

— J. Cole

Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't…

— Steve Ells

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 went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of…

— David LaChapelle

I couldn't finish my graduation so there were no jobs for me.

— Rimi Sen

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey