John Dyer Quotes

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

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

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.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

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

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

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

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

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

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

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

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

Art-school girls are very nice.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.