Quote by Lindsay Pollock

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

The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear…

— Warren MacKenzie

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a…

— Donald Barthelme

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

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The…

— Oscar Wilde

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

— Amrita Sher-Gil

Every teacher before they draw on the board: I'm not an artist

— Anonymous

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

— David Bailey

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

— Douglas Wilson

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them…

— Liza Campbell