The Best Advice Artists Ever Received
From a Conversation Among Painters
I asked a simple question: What was the best thing a teacher or instructor said to you that stuck?
In under 24 hours, over 300 painters responded. What followed was one of the richest conversations I’ve seen in any art community — not debate, not argument, but artists sharing the single sentence that changed how they work. Some of these quotes came from famous instructors. Some came from college professors nobody outside a single classroom ever heard of. One came from a five-year-old. They all stuck.
The Best Advice Artists Ever Received
From a Conversation Among Painters
I asked a simple question: What was the best thing a teacher or instructor said to you that stuck?
In under 24 hours, over 300 painters responded. What followed was one of the richest conversations I’ve seen in any art community — not debate, not argument, but artists sharing the single sentence that changed how they work. Some of these quotes came from famous instructors. Some came from college professors nobody outside a single classroom ever heard of. One came from a five-year-old. They all stuck.