Quotes

The following is a list of quotes from various sources about art and/or education when you need a little inspiration or instigation...

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.  Romare Bearden


In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.  Joseph Beuys 


The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.  William S. Burroughs


There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.  G. K. Chesterton 


People come with preconceived notions about looking at art, and unless they decide to investigate further and learn something, they'll go away with the same notions they came with.  Patricia Cole-Ferullo


Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.  John Dewey 


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet


Art is manipulation without intervention.  Louise Bourgeois