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28th
28th
Jan
2010
2010
It’s easy to see today how students don’t go to school to learn but rather to receive the stamp that says “I’m an artist.” And if you pay $40,000 a year to go to school, you really expect that stamp to get you in to a lot of places. That’s one of the big dangers of the art school system in America. If you go to law school, you come out a lawyer: I can take the bar, I can go to court and argue a case. But when you graduate from art school, you are not necessarily an artist. It’s not enough just to attend, whether for a week of for years and years.
— Piero Golia as quoted in Steven Henry Madoff, ed. Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009), 322.
