This site was designed for children to gain a better understanding of Art and Artists.

Feel free to offer any suggestions that will encourage a better understanding of our" first language." Follow the artists links for a biographical sketch of that artist.                 Jeffrey Walters  Art Educator.

Artist's Quotes I

" Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to stay an artist
once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso

" A man paints with his head and not with his hands."
Michelangelo

" Art is an adventure
into an unknown world,
which can be explored
only by those
willing to take risks."
Mark Rothko

"All the really good ideas
I ever had came to me
while I was milking a cow."
Grant Wood

" Pure strength is delicate."
Louise Nevelson

" I shut my eyes in order to see."
Paul Gauguin

" Take an object.
Do something to it.
Do something else to it.
Do something else to it ,again."
Jasper Johns

" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas

" The more an artist works
the more there is to do."
Ad Reinhardt

"I think an artist has to be
something like a whale,
swimming with his mouth open
absorbing everything
until it has what it wants."
Romare Bearden

Student Responses

All the responses are by 6TH grade students
from the Tecumseh Elementary School.
They were written in late May for an assignment.
Their responses are insightful  and illuminating.
Read their responses  at  artspeak5
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