“I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.” IfsWantFeelsMindJobsArtistStudentsProducersCurvesFillingBeing An Artist Author:Bruno Mars
“A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!” ArtistStudentsPaintShockGreat ArtGreat ArtistWhistler Author:James Whistler
“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.” WorldArtIdeasArtistSituationStudyStudentsUniversityMuseumsAcademicArt Students Author:Ad Reinhardt
“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.” ShouldArtistUnderstandingGreaterStudentsAmbitionFellowsPainterHomageFickle Author:Walter J. Phillips
“It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.” ArtArtistInterestAbilityStudentsDetermineDifferentiateArt Students Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.” GivingTwoArtistLinesTeacherTeachingStyleStudentsShapesOppositesAccountsPaintVarietyExplanationColourUnexpectedBeing An ArtistInexplicableBeing A Teacher Author:Pierre Alechinsky
“I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students!” YearsLooksArtHelpingShowsArtistMillionsStudentsMinesPaintingSellsBargainsEgotisticalDebutFamous ArtistArt StudentsBarely Getting By Author:Mark Kostabi
“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.” ArtArtistHavensStudentsGenerosityGenerousColourWorks Of ArtPaletteNickelsSqueezingArt Students Author:John French Sloan
“Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.” ArtistPoorStudentsVicesVice VersaGood Students Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.” YearsFirstsArtArtistActorsStageStudentsPoetMovedUniversityI RealizedCaliforniaPerformersDeafFestivalsSigningMoved OnInterpretingInterpreterCoordinatingI Moved On Author:Jack Jason
“Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.” KnowsArtCharacterArtistKnow HowStudentsExpectedAnxiousArt Students Author:Norman Rockwell