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May 2015 - page 2

CLAUDE MONET ~ PAINT LIKE A BIRD

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
― Claude Monet

Adolphe Monet reading in the garden, 1866

Claude Monet (1840–1926)
Arm of the Seine at Giverny

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HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that

KANDINSKY ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SOUL

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.” Wassily Kandinsky

Weilheim-Marienplatz, 1909

 

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RENE MAGRITTE ~ THE UNKNOWN

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

René Magritte

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
The Lovers
Oil on canvas
1928

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VLADIMIR ODOEVSKY ~ THE SOULLESS

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“The soulless have no need of melancholia”
― Vladimir Odoevsky

Edgar Degas, Melancholy, 1874

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PIERRE BONNARD ~ ON COLORS

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. Pierre Bonnard

French; Les Nabis Founding Member, Post-Impressionism; 1867-1947

The Terrace at Vernonnet, 1939

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

                                                                               

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THE ART OF READING

in Thoughts on literature by

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.”
David L. Ulin, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

The Artist and His Model – Alexei Harlamoff, 1875

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

CARL JUNG ~ BECOMING WHOLE OR COMPLETE

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“To individuals, becoming whole or complete is the process by which we “give birth” to ourselves as both “truly human” and “partially divine” within the Self.”

Carl Jung

Frantisek Kupka, Dream, c. 1909

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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA ~ DO NOT COPY

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.”

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)

Tamara de Lempicka
The Green Turban
1929

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ANNE BRONTE ~ THE SILENT HOUR OF NIGHT

in Paintings speaking Poetry by

“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”

― Anne Brontë –

Moonlit Landscape, by Edward Steichen, 1907

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EVENING WHISPERS

in Paintings speaking Poetry by

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.”
― Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Shell of Sense

Bathers in the Evening
Hippolyte Petitjean – 1902

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