MaryAnn F. Kohl famous quotes

Art is a process, not a product.
-- MaryAnn F. Kohl

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Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.
-- MaryAnn F. Kohl

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Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.
-- MaryAnn F. Kohl

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Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.
-- MaryAnn F. Kohl

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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Pop art is about liking things.