Art Teacher Quotes

#1. I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

James Pearse Connelly

#2. My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.

Erin Andrews

#3. I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.

Judith Warner

#4. My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.

Kadir Nelson

#5. I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Hedy Lamarr

#6. I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

Dylan Moran

#7. When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

David Coverdale

#8. My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

James Wolk

#9. I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Sela Ward

#10. Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.

Robert Stromberg

#11. The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about?

David Mitchell

#12. My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#13. My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Gus Van Sant

#14. I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.

Jack Larson

#15. My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

Benmont Tench

#16. I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

#17. I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

Brian Henson

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

Christine McVie

#19. [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

Billy Crystal

#20. Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

Mark Kostabi

#21. The art of writing is the same as the art of convincing a teacher that you really did do your homework or you studied something that you didn't. It's the art of lying convincingly and it's amazing how much you can learn from a little.

Neil Gaiman

#22. The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein

#23. I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Hippocrates

#24. My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

Renzo Gracie

#25. My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

David Blaine

#26. David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.

Sheldon Siegel

#27. In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

#28. Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#29. When you're in the role of the teacher, the teacher must take on the role of the student and learn from him or her.

Art Hochberg

#30. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.

Henry Miller

#31. The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Seth Godin

#32. I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.

Kurt Wagner

#33. A child her wayward pencil drew
On margins of her book;
Garlands of flower, dancing elves,
Bud, butterfly, and brook,
Lessons undone, and plum forgot,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art.

Louisa May Alcott

#34. I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

Robert Bateman

#35. 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

#36. The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#37. Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

Madi Diaz

#38. Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Peter Schjeldahl

#39. 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

#40. We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

Richard Riley

#41. I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

Forest Whitaker

#42. Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Albert Einstein

#43. I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

Frida Giannini

#44. The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Laozi

#45. When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#46. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#47. Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

Fiore Dei Liberi

#48. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....

Titus Burckhardt

#49. One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].

Paul Smith

#50. It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

William James

#51. I remember one time in my junior year, in my art class, our teacher had us doing, like, finger paints, and I went and put a stripe on a girl's shirt, and it turned into a big paint fight. Paint all over the walls, all over everybody. It was pretty fun.

CC Sabathia

#52. The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught ... What a teacher can do ... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

Madeleine L'Engle

#53. The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Stephen Neill

#54. Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Steve Perry

#55. It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

Frederick Lenz

#56. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#57. My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#58. Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

Chuck Close

#59. Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#60. Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.

Higa Yuchoku

#61. Art owes its origin to Nature herself ... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

#62. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Piet Mondrian

#63. Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#64. Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#65. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Frederick Lenz

#66. At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

Catherine Hicks

#67. Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

George Bernard Shaw

#68. Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

William James

#69. I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad would the world be if people didn't create art and write? But, it's not an easy journey being a writer.

Alyson Richman

#70. 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

#71. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Pat Conroy

#72. What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

William James

#73. 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

#74. I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

Benjamin Walker

#75. 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

#76. The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

William James

#77. Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

William James

#78. Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

Mandy Patinkin

#79. I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

Margaret Cho

#80. When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art,

Geoffrey Canada

#81. I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.

Fred Gwynne

#82. To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Joseph Beuys

#83. I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Martin Mull

#84. The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#85. The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#86. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

#87. I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that effective teaching is often the spark that ignites the imagination, possibility, and promise for learners, including the teacher.

Barbara Paterson

#88. I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

Camille Paglia