Self taught Quotes · Page 2

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

— Judah Friedlander

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

— Walter Becker

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

— Hanneli Mustaparta

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

— Toru Takemitsu

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

— Katherine Dunn

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

— John Knoll

“I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.”

— Aravind Adiga

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even…

— Scott Kahn

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I…

— Jesse Spencer

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many…

— Curtis Hanson

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind…

— Aravind Adiga

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if…

— Reggie Watts

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my…

— Daphne Guinness

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen;…

— Vijay Sethupathi

I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll…

— Keith Barry

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

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

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

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

— Jack Kirby

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

— Harpo Marx

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

— Jerry Saltz

“The lessons which are remembered the longest, Roland knew, are always the ones that are self-taught.”

— Stephen King

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

— Jim Jarmusch

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

— John Constable

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

There are many actors who have not been trained, but self-taught means one cannot be limited. It means you're continuously learning.

— Neeraj Kabi

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm a self-taught actor, which means that I had to learn everything on my own, as I wanted to know the craft…

— Neeraj Kabi

“There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.”

— Ted Leeson

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

— Judah Friedlander

It has been an incredible journey for a singer like me who is self taught.

— Sonu Kakkar

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

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

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

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

— Diogenes

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

— Richard Meale

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it…

— Eric Hernandez