Ruth Asawa Quotes

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

My high school art teacher was the best in the world.

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

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

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

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

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.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.