Kehinde Wiley Quotes

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

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

Art can only be taught by artists.

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

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 didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

I've decided to go for a B.A. in art. It's the shortest route to a degree. I'm thinking about teaching.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

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

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

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

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.