Aldis Hodge Quotes

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

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

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

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

I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

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

My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

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.

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

I went to art school when I was little.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

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

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.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

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

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

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

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.