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I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to…

— Ron Parker

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the…

— James Ivory

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

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

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together.…

— James Dean

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the…

— Claude Monet

I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in…

— Michael C. McMillen

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art…

— Abbi Jacobson

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where…

— Alec Monopoly

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to…

— Natasha Trethewey

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod