Kanye West regrets giving up on his art course at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Kanye West is convinced he could have become become “greater” than Picasso if he had continued with a career in fine art. The rapper was a guest lecturer at Oxford University in England on Monday, and during his address to students, West revealed his regrets over giving up on his art course at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Ill., in the 1990s. He transferred to an English course and later dropped out of college to focus on music, but West is convinced he would have become an internationally renowned artist