Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.
Art can only be taught by artists.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
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.
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
