Kehinde Wiley Quotes

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

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

No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.

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 made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

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

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

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.

I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.