Top 83 Art Teaching Quotes
#1. It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.
Mortimer J. Adler
#2. Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
Barbara Kruger
#3. He ended up teaching middleschool art for a living. That was some soothing shit right there.
Scott Hawkins
#5. When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
Anne Lamott
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
Bennett Cerf
#10. It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years.
Paul Smith
#12. 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
#13. When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt, so was sort of a novice folkie ... I was singing folk songs at that time.
Joni Mitchell
#14. Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
Warren Farrell
#15. Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
Sigmund Freud
#16. Poem
Words from the heart
Breaking, teaching, healing
The deepest, purest form of art
Feeling
Esther Spurrill Jones
#17. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying.
C.S. Lewis
#18. 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
#19. Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature had been the mistress of his study; and from her teaching, all the wonder came.
Charles Dickens
#21. Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been made with lead and mercury.
Thomm Quackenbush
#22. As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.
William Gurnall
#23. The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.
Dane R. Pascoe
#24. 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
#25. You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
Charles De Lint
#26. Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.
Art Alexakis
#27. I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
Forest Whitaker
#28. Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized ...
Michael Bell
#29. Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.
Deborah Ann Woll
#30. Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#31. Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.
Danny Gregory
#32. I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
Peter Greenaway
#33. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#35. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
#36. The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.
Michelle Grabner
#37. The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
George Grosz
#38. What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.
Ernst Von Glasersfeld
#39. The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
Christian Michael
#40. Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.
Fiore Dei Liberi
#41. The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
Kano Jigoro
#42. I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.
Jandy Nelson
#43. Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.
Hartosh Singh Bal
#44. Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
Stephen Sondheim
#45. The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Vandana Shiva
#46. Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.
Steve Perry
#47. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#48. The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#49. Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
Dick Cavett
#50. INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.
Morihei Ueshiba
#51. Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand.
Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation
teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.
Terry Tempest Williams
#52. Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Joshua Reynolds
#53. I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
Giorgio Vasari
#54. Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
Jerome Bruner
#55. When it comes to training I do that through teaching.
Ryron Gracie
#56. Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
William James
#57. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
#58. 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
#59. That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
Taylor Mali
#60. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.
Pat Conroy
#61. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
#62. My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
Howard Pyle
#63. You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
Steve Martin
#64. Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#65. Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
Michel De Montaigne
#66. I've decided to go for a B.A. in art. It's the shortest route to a degree. I'm thinking about teaching.
Herb Trimpe
#67. The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy ... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.
Christian Boltanski
#68. You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
William James
#69. 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
#70. The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
William James
#71. 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
#72. I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
David McCullough
#73. I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.
Trina Robbins
#75. What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
William James
#76. The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.
Ken Bain
#77. 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
#78. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
#79. I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
Art Garfunkel
#80. 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
#81. Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.
Kay Panabaker
#82. 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
#83. Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
William James
