Able Quote by Charles de Lint

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my…

— Brian Bird

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

— C. S. Lewis

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's…

— Ralph Ellison

“You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist”

— john j geddes

“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood or sat…

— Benjamin Blech

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having.…

— Cass Sunstein

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

— Billy Al Bengston

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

— Eleanora Duse

“You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.”

— Sabina Nore

Art can only be taught by artists.

— Ruth Asawa