Bruce Nauman Quotes

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

Any great teacher is a great student.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.