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“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.”

World Mind Hands Kids Young Artist Teacher College Training Theater Incredibles Brilliant Bunch Around The World Young Minds

Author:Joe Manganiello

“The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.”

World Artist Teacher Ought Reporters Great Teacher

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”

May School Artist Turns Teacher Towns Painter Copies Honour Abandoned Imitation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.”

Important Artist Felt Teacher Sells Selling Landscape

Author:E. J. Hughes

“An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.”

Artist Education Steps Teacher

Author:Orson Welles

“At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.”

Art Important Artist Teacher Theory University Contrary Academic Orientation Best Teacher Renowned

Author:Ralph Allen

“The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.”

Artist Roles Teacher Seeing Teaching Capable Enlightenment Explorers Conveying

Author:Ken Danby

“On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.”

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.”

People Artist Teacher Saint Prophet Good People

Book:The question of things happening

Source: The question of things happening

“Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.”

Wanted School Artist Names Animal Teacher

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.”

Men Wells Self Whole Mother Artist Father Teacher Wife Teaching Lovers Husband Scholar Earning Earning Money

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Spirit Mother Artist Fall Enemy Teacher Wife Land Lovers Violent Mates No Friends

Book:Myself

Source: Myself