St. Lucia Quotes

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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

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

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

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

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.