Leonard Baskin Quotes

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.

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

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 never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

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 never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

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 taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

I think it would be criminal if there was no art in school.

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

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Buying art is not understanding art.

I'm a huge art buff.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

I have a strong art-history background.

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.