Lynda Resnick Quotes

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.