Abstraction Quote by David Small

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what…

— Bill Viola

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so…

— John Merrow

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only…

— Warren MacKenzie

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

— Rosie Perez

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful…

— Syd Barrett

Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture…

— Cornelia Parker

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

— Paul Smith

“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and "self-expression" in…

— Robert Hughes

When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the…

— Edwin Catmull

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

— Roger Scruton

Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back…

— Michael Bierut

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me…

— Neil Farber