Quotes About Learning

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

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.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.