Welcome to the Prince Edward High School Art Studio!188
Did You Know?
Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three
days each week through at least one full year are:
4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools
4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem
Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:
Attend music, art, and dance classes nearly three times as frequently
Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently
Read for pleasure nearly twice as often
Perform community service more than four times as often
Sign up for an art class soon and discover the artist in you!
THE SECRET TO LIFE IS FINDING THE ART OF EVERYTHING......
A few of my favorite art quotes:
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company,
comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in
words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is
loneliness.
Henry Miller
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler