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“My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.”

Taught Color Painting Training Illustration Selective

Author:Burton Silverman

“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”

Way Want Wanted School Found Stupid Taught Painting Fool Shapes Concern Decided Paint Painter Colour Very Stupid

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.”

World Should Wells Looks Shows Reality Imagination Information Produce Taught Painting Profession Painter Comparison Poetic Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

Knows Reality Pain Suffering Turns Grief Know How Taught Painting Scene Experience Court Edges Mood Shallow Counterfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“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.”

Art Stills Class Worst Taught Painting Chinese Indian Department Facility Art History Still Life

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.”

“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.”

Ideas Done My Own Taught Painting Shapes Decided I Realized Familiar

Book:Some Memories of Drawings

Source: Some Memories of Drawings

“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.”

Ifs Want Art Eye School Class Doubt Taught Painting Masters Appreciate Paint Available Math Dry What If Locked Fence Leonardo Art Class

Author:Edward Frenkel

“There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.”

Way Artist Given Taught Painting Masters Shocking Copying

Author:Kehinde Wiley