Best 10 quotes in «art education quotes» category

It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

This is not a how-to book. It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book. In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images in this text, and each mind is unique. Getting these, and other images, down on paper will provide you with fun, frustration, joy and despair. Like life,

Thus the chief purpose of art education for life is to help students understand something about themselves and others through art and thereby contribute to personal growth, social progress, and a sense of global community.

Today they are teaching the subject of art as a frill in school, partly due to intellectual preciousness that has crept into art departments with the making of the History of Art. Intellectualising places art on a pedestal only for the few, causing New Zealanders to revert to the invented snobbery that tends to ignore anything arty as exotic, unattainable, not wholesome.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.