How well does this describe your teaching?
“What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
― Pablo Picasso
As I read quotes from Picasso, I find inspiration for my teaching–the part of my teaching that draws on craft and technique and then, sometimes, goes beyond into artfulness.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso