Art Teacher Quotes

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

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 him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.

I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.