Art School Quotes - Page 7

• I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.

  Peter Greenaway

  Friday, Art, School

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Teaching, School

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• My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

  Paul McCartney

  Art, School, Use

  Interview with Robert Siegel, www.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Morning, Believe

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• When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

  Moby

  Art, Philosophy, School

  "Trouble still comes easy for Moby". Interview With Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2008.

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• When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, School, Thinking

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, School, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Cousin, School

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• I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Cousin, Fall

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• I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Art, Creativity, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

  Sofia Coppola

  Art, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, School, Numbers

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Brother, Art, Kids

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, School, Should Have

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• The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

  John Lennon

  Art, School, Drug

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• For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

  Christina Milian

  Art, School, Years

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• I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

  Derek Hough

  Art, School, Different

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• I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Art, Taken, School

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• The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

  Ray Davies

  Art, School, Thinking

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• I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

  Tweet

  Art, School, Blood

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

  Roz Chast

  Art, School, Painting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Mean, School

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.

  Gerard Way

  Art, School, Band

  "Until I'm Done Or Until I Get Fired: Gerard Way On His Plans For Young Animal". Interview With Andrew Wheeler, comicsalliance.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management or acting. I thought, "I don't want to be an actor, but I know production and stage management take acting classes" - this is literally my internal monologue. I was like, "Designers don't have to take acting classes. Cool. I'll check that box".

  James Pearse Connelly

  Art, School, Class

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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