David Small Quotes

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute in Chicago, I simply never became involved in sculpture. I did prints, and I did paintings.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.

I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

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.

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

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

First master the fundamentals.

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 attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.