Attempting Quote by Warren MacKenzie

If you didn't know what you were trying to do, [Robert von Neumann] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and walk away.…

— Warren MacKenzie

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

— Warren MacKenzie

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

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

— Dan Colen

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

“I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape…

— Bauvard

My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with…

— Kadir Nelson

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

— Howard Jacobson

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then…

— Gerhard Richter