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I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
Peter Beard
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I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.
Peter Beard
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.


Kate Ashfield
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
George Lucas
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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
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I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Peter Capaldi
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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
Peter Capaldi
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Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
Tony Scott
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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Brian Eno
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I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
Stephen Mangan
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I had no interest in high school besides art.


Damian Loeb
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When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
Laurie Simmons
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
Barry McGee
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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
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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
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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
Martin Mull
At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.
Terry Teachout
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Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.


Dwayne Johnson
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Peter Brimelow
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