Art Teacher Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Teacher, Educational

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

  St. Lucia

  Teacher, Art, Style

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Teacher, Art, Generations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  David Coverdale

  Romantic, Teacher, Art

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

  Christine McVie

  Teacher, Art, Want

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

  Bertolt Brecht

  Teacher, Crazy, Literature

  "Life of Galileo". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1939.

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• 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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.

  Judith Warner

  Mom, Teacher, Art

  Judith Warner (2006). “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety”, p.28, Penguin

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• 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.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Dream, Teacher, Art

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.109, Penguin

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• 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.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Teacher, Art, Thinking

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• 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.

  Josef Albers

  Teacher, Art, School

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• 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.

  Sela Ward

  Teacher, Art, School

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• 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.

  Erin Andrews

  Mom, Teacher, Art

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• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Teacher, Art, Dad

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Teacher, Art

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• 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.

  Dylan Moran

  Teacher, Art, Games

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