My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to… — Yigal Azrouel Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It has been an incredible journey for a singer like me who is self taught. — Sonu Kakkar Copy Share Image
I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught. — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“Now it is true that I could have learned without a teacher, but it would have been risky for me, because of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image