Art School Quotes - Page 5

• I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

  Dave Gibbons

  Art, Real, School

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• I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

  John Mayall

  Art, School, Play

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• The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

  Peter Zumthor

  Running, Art, Father

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Art-school girls are very nice.

  Anthony Mackie

  Girl, Art, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

  Josef Albers

  Teacher, Art, School

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• 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

  Art, New York, School

  Interview with Gavin Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, School, Ideas

  "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

  Carmen Electra

  Art, Attitude, School

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• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Degrees

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• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Challenges

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you".

  Grant Morrison

  Art, Dad, School

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• I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

  Mike White

  Art, School, Thinking

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  John Howe

  Art, Real, School

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• I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

  Jonathan Winters

  Art, War, School

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• Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Hate, School

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• I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously... you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute... HA! I looked hot as a chick!

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Art, Nice

  "Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance". Teen Ink Interview, www.teenink.com. July 15, 2012.

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• After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Art, School, Illustrators

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• I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Art, School, Ballet

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• I went to art school when I was little.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Art, School, Littles

  Interview with Justin Timberlake, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, School, Practice

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• My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Girl, Art, Brother

  Interview With Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

  Norah Jones

  Art, School, Jazz

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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• Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, War, School

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• Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

  Paul Engle

  Art, School, Gone

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