Marc Newson Quotes

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

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

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

Presently, I really admire Rebecca Warren, the artist. She continues to keep creating wonderful sculpture. And I met her, and she is really cool.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

Chairs are like sculpture.

I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.

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

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

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.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

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

I went to art school when I was little.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

I started painting when I was in high school.

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

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.

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

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

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 went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.