Quotes on Art Education

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.