David Small Quotes

I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

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

I only understand realism.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

I don't really know about the art world.

I'm just a fan of art and culture.

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

I have a strong art-history background.

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.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

I want to know art.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

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.