John Howe Quotes

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

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

After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

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

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

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

I positively encourage time abroad to anybody. It's worth taking the time to suss out which countries in the world are well funded for your subject and look for opportunities there.

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

You always speak the language you hear most.

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

I had the opportunity to come to the United States of America as an exchange student, so I had to come for four months, work, and then go back.

I had never been taken in like I was in Italy just by saying a few words. That made me feel like I had to put in the effort, and I want to be one of them.

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, 'Go abroad.' So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I can speak Mandarin fluently.