Action Quote by David C. Driskell

“the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil…

— Mitch Albom

“So another thing is where the subjects are in a painting. What's that called?" "Composition. We learned it in art class.”

— Kathryn Shay

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

— Amiri Baraka

The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw.…

— Paul Smith

“Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.”

— Charles Bukowski

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because…

— Laurie Anderson

“It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working classes,”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Teaching is a performing art.”

— Chris Biffle

“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became an important…

— Sandra McLeod Humphrey

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

— Sabina Nore

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

— Cornelia Parker