Art Quote by Ryan McGinley

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would…

— John Baldessari

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

— Bud Luckey

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be…

— Maya Lin

I don't keep up with the art world. It's out there and if I did that too much, I wouldn't get my own work…

— Michael C. McMillen

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could…

— Patti Smith

I had never really thought about acting as art. You know, growing up in Youngstown, the Rust Belt of the world, it was always…

— Chris Zylka

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

— Iris Apfel

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I…

— Claes Oldenburg

I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed,…

— Kehinde Wiley

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography…

— Robert Bateman

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting…

— David Bowie