William Scott Quotes

United Kingdom, Artist
February 15, 1913 – December, 28, 1989.

William Scott CBE RA was a British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott
- Ideas
- Painting
- Occasion
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

William Scott
- Learning
- System
- Mindless

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott
- Courses
- Columbia
- Alumni
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott
- Truth
- Students
- Authors
You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott
- People
- Think
- Push