Juliet Rylance Quotes

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every city has a great museum.

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn't the money to go on funding it.

I spent three years at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, which I enjoyed very much.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.

I actually wanted to study acting in a way that not a lot of people want to do any more. And I wanted to go to college and pay lots of money to do it.

A lot of my work involves criss-crossing London to visit the many hundreds of projects, theaters, galleries, museums and groups that comprise the capital's astonishingly rich cultural life.

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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

The best teacher in life is experience.

In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most influential man. Even if he were to be remembered solely for his body of illustration work, he’d still be one of the greats, but by opening the Kubert School in 1976, he was able to personally mentor and educate literally thousands of successful artists who owe their careers to his teachings.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.