American education Quote by Robert Hughes

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

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

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

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot…

— Kehinde Wiley

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was…

— David Small

“In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.”

— Dorothy Sayers

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Art is childhood.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And, I mean,…

— Temple Grandin

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

“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

I went to art school when I was little.

— Amanda Seyfried