“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.” KnowsYearsHumansEndsSchoolWinningAbilityEducationStudyFiguresStudentsPrizeCopies Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“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.” MaySchoolArtistTurnsTeacherTownsPainterCopiesHonourAbandonedImitation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsArtFactsFeelingsSchoolArtistOrderCopiesBetter WaysCopyingArt School Author:Bridget Riley
“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.” MaySometimesSchoolPowerfulUniversalOriginalsMethodLimitationGrievingCopiesConventionalPreferenceScopeDisappointCorrectnessDerivativesNewnessGreat Schools Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire the fundamentals of the timeless principles of academic school, which is a prerequisite for the development of your Uniqueness as an Artist.” IfsShouldDreamSchoolArtistPrinciplesStyleDevelopmentAmbitionAimFundamentalsYour DreamsAcquireCopiesAcademicUniquenessTimelessPrerequisites Author:Igor Babailov