Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

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.

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

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

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

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.

Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

There is no depth to education without art.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

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

I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That's all they need.

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.