Art Professor Quotes

Deep and/or funny things my art appreciation professor said. Submissions of art professor quotes are welcome!

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It's beautiful but it also reminds you of horror. These are the things I keep in my life.

Art in Science tutor on Bertelli’s Continuous Profile

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Hopefully you've all figured out by now that with toning your canvas there's not really any rules, just a lot of good suggestions

Oil Painting Professor

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A lot of these Russian paintings look like they were painted with an ax.

Oil painting professor

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A former professor of mine used to say that alizarin crimson looks so good it makes you want to lick it!

Oil painting professor

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In Oil Painting Class...

Professor: I wouldn’t use [retouch varnish] outside. If you do, just make sure you’re on your own property...or at least that no one sees you

Class: *laughs*

Professor: Don’t tell anyone I said that - I’d get in trouble

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Which is better, to buy a hungry person a hamburger or argue about the philosophy of good and evil?

Art Appreciation professor

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The artist stands as a lone voice against whatever injustice is being committed

Art Appreciation professor

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Evil is able to triumph because of our apathy… because we are asleep.

Art Appreciation professor

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If you believe that there’s more to life than politics and materialism, then maybe Romanticism is a step in the right direction

Art Appreciation professor

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This was the age of scrambled egg ceilings and lying around, being naked

Art Appreciation professor, discussing Boucher

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Dimensions of the human heart are displayed in these paintings if you can stay awake long enough to disclose them

Art Appreciation professor

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Anytime someone makes you do something… you don’t want to do it anymore

Art Appreciation professor

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If you have a group of people tell you ‘This is how things are supposed to be,’ you can count on a group of artists to rebel against that

Art Appreciation professor

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I didn’t know I was going to talk about Ophelia today, but I have, and now I shall sip some tea

Art Appreciation professor

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Do you know what a Carmelite is? It sounds like something you might order at Starbucks

Art Appreciation professor

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If you get romantically involved with Caravaggio, now that’s problematic… we have court records of Caravaggio

Art Appreciation professor

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People like to blame religion for the deaths of innocents, but if you look at the 21st century, you don’t need religion to do that. Ideology will work just as well

Art Appreciation professor