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"...a picture - before being a warhorse, a nude woman, or some sort of anecdote - is essentially a surface covered with colours arranged in a certain order."

-Maurice Denis, 1890, in Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1991

"The question of what will emerge is left open. One functions in an attitude of expectancy. As Juan Gris said: 'You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.'"

-Robert Motherwell & Harold Rosenburg, 'The Question of What Will Emerge is Left Open'

"Not even the greatest doctor in Bologna in the 17th Century knew as much about the human body as today's third-year medical student. But nobody alive today can draw as well as Rembrandt or Goya."

-Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1991

"Whether the paintings or sculpture of the future are carried out in ferro-concrete, plastic, steel, wire, hydrogen, cosmic rays, or helium; and oil paint, stone, bronze suspended as anachronisms, it is reality that man is yet subject to gravitational forces and still dependent on sustenance from nature and a spiritual consciousness, an individual with individual characteristics to remain so for aeons of time."

-David Bomberg

"There is no fixed way in which a line goes, but there is a relationship between lines. There is then an order peculiar to one's own vision of a thing, an order which underlies the image."

-David Bomberg

"Without the model in front of him [Frank Auerbach] could not invent, there being no resistance in what is simply made up."

-Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1991

"Do not be an art critic, but paint, therein lies salvation."

-Paul Cézanne, letter to Emile Bernard, 25 July 1904

"The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature."

-Paul Cézanne, letter to Emile Bernard, 12 May 1904

"Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anybody else but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?"

-Picasso, 1923

"Generally speaking, colour directly influences the soul. Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul."

-Kandinsky, "The Effect of Colour", 1911

When I read the title the first thing I thought of is all the quotes from art classes I've aquired. *digs through sketchbook* I shall share! Others should share their art class quotes as well... or start taking them down if they don't have any, and then share. Tis good fun!

"Drugs and nudity and violence. Yeah, that's what art school is all about."
~Joel, the multimedia teacher (showing a video about Andy Worhol)

"People seem to think that if you drink you are more creative. Well, if you drink you just throw up a lot."
~More Joel

"It shouldn't be a sketchy sketch."
~Julius, design teacher (giving homework instructions)

"I've been looking at comic books since before you were born!"
~Julius

"A portrait has sort of an upward thrust to it."
~Julius

"Get some pencil extenders! They are vaguely pornographic."
~Mike, painting teacher