Art Instruction Quotes

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

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

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.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

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

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

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.

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

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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.

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

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

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.

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

Art can only be taught by artists.

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.

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

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

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

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the system that works at Yale. There's the group critiques, and then there's the one-on-one critiques that happen in studio.

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.

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.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.