Art Quote by John Constable Download Open image “An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.” — John Constable ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Education Ignorant Ignorant person Persons Self Self taught Taught
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's much better for an artist to know everything than to be limited by ignorance. — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
The artists and creative people are not in a position to teach someone. Nobody wants to be taught through entertainment. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can be humble… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect., can teach you what they know and have learned through years of experience and experiment with their medium, but when it comes to creative expression their way is only theirs and never yours, and your value as an… — Edward Chase Copy Share
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. — John Constable Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works… — John Constable Copy Share Image
It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception… — John Constable Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. — John Constable Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make… — John Constable Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should… — John Constable Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
