“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.” ArtCountryWantedArtistFunRealizingClassSeeingInspirePaintingArt Class Author:Edward Ruscha
“Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.” ArtArtistIndividualClassPaintingWorks Of ArtUniquenessPredictionsSculpture Author:Ben Shahn
“I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.” HumansHomeFacesFormClassEnvironmentPaintingModelsLandscapePortraitsHuman Form Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.” ArtStillsClassWorstTaughtPaintingChineseIndianDepartmentFacilityArt HistoryStill Life Author:Ad Reinhardt
“Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.” KindVoiceActingClassPaintingIncrediblesPhotographAdolescenceExplodingActing Classes Author:Lynn Shelton
“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.” PeopleWayLifeNeedsMadeStillsFeltInterestingClassSubjectsPaintingDrawingBest WayGet BackVery Interesting Author:Peter Wright
“High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.” HeartWinningNationsClassRichPaintingHigherPoliticianTaxesCreatingResourcesVoteRateSeekingIncomeOpponentsFraudFairnessWarfareRhetoricDefendersPhonySlipperyDonationClass WarfareLoopholesBracketsHigh Taxes Author:Thomas Sowell
“What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.” IfsWantArtEyeSchoolClassDoubtTaughtPaintingMastersAppreciatePaintAvailableMathDryWhat IfLockedFenceLeonardoArt Class Author:Edward Frenkel
“The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.” SometimesWholeShowsDarkClassTeacherSubjectsFrontsPaintingPhotographyRemainsExperimentsPrintHumiliation Author:Hiroshi Hamaya
“Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.” NationsRaceSituationClassParticularPaintingGenderSexuality Author:Kehinde Wiley
“When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.” IfsArtKidsSchoolClassDesignPaintingPhotographyPhotographerSculptureGraphicGraphic DesignArt School Author:Ryan McGinley