Art Class Quotes:

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

- Dan Colen

topic: Art, Class, Art Class

I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.

- Eddie Vedder

source: Source: www.billboard.com

topic: Art, Kids, Class, Art Class

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?

- Bette Midler

source: Source: www.oprah.com

topic: Art, Children, School, Art Class

I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.

- Robert Barry

topic: Art, Fun, Class, Art Class, General Education

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

- Len Wein

topic: Dad, Book, Kids, Eighth Grade, Art Class

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

- Alex Kingston

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Art, Class, Qualms, Qualms About

I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are objectified, well here you go! Here's a man being objectivized but now it's under the guise of art.

- Eli Roth

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Girl, Art, Men, Art Class

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

- Larry Gagosian

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Reading, College, Art Class

Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

- William Webb

topic: Tattoo, Art, Illustration, Commercial Art, Art Class

In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.

- Stephen Beal

topic: Art, Philosophy, War, Art Class

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Art, Children, Grief, Stark Reality, Art Class

I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do...

- Wade Guyton

topic: Art, Father, Kids, Art Class

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

- Joan Miro

topic: Religious, Art, Hands, Art Class

If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Art, Health, Buddhism, Art Class

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

- Edward Ruscha

topic: Country, Art, Fun, Art Class

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

- Suzanne Farrell

topic: Art, Class, Models, Art Class

I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class.

- Sarah Rees Brennan

source: Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Class, Glue, Art Class, Sniffing Glue

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Subsistence, Being Hated, Art Class

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board.

- Hilary McKay

topic: Mother, Art, Jobs, Suitable, Art Class

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

- Meredith Baxter

topic: Art, Couple, Years, Art Class

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: "Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint" by Shane Hickey, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

topic: Lonely, Art, Thinking, Art Class

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

- Barry Eisler

topic: Art, Thinking, Gun, Art Class

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

- Ice Cube

topic: Art, Class, Doorways, Used To Love, Drafting

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Art, Book, Writing, Art Class

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

topic: Art, School, College, Art Class

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

- Rebecca Miller

topic: Beach, Art, Drinking, Skater, Shoplifting

What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.

- Edward Frenkel

topic: Art, School, Eye, Art Class

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

- Claes Oldenburg

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, School, College, Art Class

In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

- Hassan Blasim

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Mother, Teacher, Art, Math Teacher, Khomeini

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

source: Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

topic: Soccer, Art, Writing, Art Class

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?

- Sara Shepard

topic: Art, Teaching, Character, Scarlet, Aria

I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.

- Wade Guyton

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Dad, Kids, Art Class