Art Students Quotes

#1. My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

Doug Dawson

#2. Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

Bernie Worrell

#3. Reading and analyzing what you are reading, why you like this or don't like that, can only make you a better writer. So reading is a must! Just like art students study the masters, we too should study and learn from those we adore and/or aspire to be like.

Darynda Jones

#4. People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Jonathan Miller

#5. Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Imogen Binnie

#6. And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Donald Judd

#7. I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

Ad Reinhardt

#8. Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Norman Rockwell

#9. Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Boy George

#10. Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Frederick Sanger

#11. When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Joe Murray

#12. One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#13. Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Louis Eric Barrier

#14. The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

Rick Smolan

#15. I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

John Baldessari

#16. A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

Frederick Lenz

#17. In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba

#18. I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

Andrew Lau

#19. When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

Taylor Mali

#20. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Elliot W. Eisner

#21. I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.

Paul Smith

#22. The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults ...

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#23. Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.

Terry Teachout

#24. It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

John F. Carlson

#25. A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

Ip Chun

#26. The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

Deborah Meier

#27. I want my students involved in learning to love and question art, not to live in fear of tests.

Marlene Nall Johnt

#28. Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

Henry Mintzberg

#29. Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

Michelle Obama

#30. Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Nell Irvin Painter

#31. Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

John Baldessari

#32. The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

Paulo Freire

#33. I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

Kalup Linzy

#34. In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Richard P. Feynman

#35. For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

Shunryu Suzuki

#36. I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.

Stephen Beal

#37. It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.

Helen Bevington

#38. Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

Greg Carlson

#39. I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

Lester Bangs

#40. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

#41. Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

Gichin Funakoshi

#42. A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Robert Henri

#43. One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

Andrew Hoberek

#44. The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

Robert Nelson

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

Kerry Washington

#46. Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

Robert Grudin

#47. The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.

Eric Jensen

#48. The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to ... I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'

George Harrison

#49. I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

Peter Capaldi

#50. A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Max Tundra

#51. The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Ed Parker

#52. I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

Richard Schmid

#53. The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Tom Chatfield

#54. 1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Mas Oyama

#55. While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

Frederick Lenz