Walter Gropius Quotes

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

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

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork. I forgot to mention that my course of study at the Art Institute is BSC in Media Arts and Animation.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

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

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse and not be an asshole. That's all I wanted in a professor.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.