Learning Art Quotes

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.