Art Quote by David Amram

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

— Nigel Dennis

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

— LeRoy Neiman

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.

— Miranda July

Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the…

— Kehinde Wiley

My high school art teacher was the best in the world.

— Bud Luckey

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

— Munira Mirza

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on…

— Graham Coxon

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known…

— Henry Flynt

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

— Steve Stoute

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life -…

— Ruth Asawa