Betty Edwards Quotes

#1. An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

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#2. Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let's face it, frivolous - especially the visual arts, with their connotation of "the starving artist" and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

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#3. That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language.

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#4. Today we are not only testing and grading our children into the ground, but we are not teaching them how to see and understand the deep meaning of what they learn, or to perceive the connectedness of information about the world. It is indeed time to try something different.

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#5. As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

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#6. Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

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#7. The greatest satisfaction comes from mastering something that is truly difficult.

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#8. Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

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#9. Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

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