Tony Kaye Quotes

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

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.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

I have a BFA in illustration.

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

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

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.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.