Quotes About Education

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.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

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

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Art-school girls are very nice.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

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.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

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

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

I went to art school when I was little.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.