Art Quote by J. Cole

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

Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings and expand…

— Lindsey Stirling

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful…

— Syd Barrett

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

— Paul Weller

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

— Jackie DeShannon

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

— Claire Danes

I kind of decided to take a year out to see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere so I…

— Florence And The Machine

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

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 didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And…

— Elizabeth Neel

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered…

— Pipilotti Rist

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or…

— Roisin Murphy