Quotes About Education

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Teaching is performance art.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

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

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I had had no art training.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.