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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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• Art-school girls are very nice.

  Anthony Mackie

  Girl, Art, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

  Ty Pennington

  Art, Jobs, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art, School, Life Is

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Children, School

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• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

  Bill Griffith

  Art, New York, School

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• I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Photography, Running, Art

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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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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• 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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• 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 went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Art, Fun, School

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• I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

  Nico Tortorella

  Art, School, College

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• I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.

  Brian Regan

  Art, Jobs, Hate

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• Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

  Marc Newson

  Art, School, Design

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• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

  Art, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

  John Hench

  Art, School, People

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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• 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

  Art, School, College

  "Taking imagination seriously". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Children, School

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• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Art, Father

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• You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Art, Real

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• I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.

  David Lynch

  Art, School, Marijuana

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