Art School Quotes

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

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• I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Art, Book, School

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• When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, School, Mean

  "Andy Goldsworthy Goes Into The Wind". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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• You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

  Duane Michals

  Art, School, Contradiction

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• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  Leonard Baskin

  Education, Art, Believe

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

  Jackie DeShannon

  Art, School, Thinking

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• I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

  Noel Fielding

  Art, Ambition, School

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• Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.

  Jack White

  Art, Attitude, School

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• I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

  Martin Mull

  Teacher, Art, School

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• A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

  Ross Bleckner

  Education, Art, School

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• When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

  John Currin

  Art, Fun, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.

  John Currin

  Art, School, Rooms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

  Iris Apfel

  Art, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Art, Wall, School

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• I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

  John Currin

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

  Michael Dumontier

  Art, Book, School

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

  George Bellows

  Art, School, Firsts

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• I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

  Howard Pyle

  Art, New York, School

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• When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

  Bruce Nauman

  Art, School, Figures

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