Brian Selznick Quotes

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

I have a BFA in illustration.

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

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

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

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.