Quotes About Art

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a dancer. I studied ballet.

I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

I studied realism when I was in art school.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.

I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.

But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn't do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn't speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.