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PAUL GAUGUIN ~ BEAUTY

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


Blue Trees, 1888

“Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery – idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful – the beauty that is personal – the only beauty that is human.”
― Paul Gauguin, Intimate Journals

Clovis Gauguin asleep, 1884

PAUL CEZANNE ~ A BEAUTIFUL STILLNESS

in Monique's Favorite Paintings by

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne – circa 1890

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CLAUDE MONET ~ A DESIRE TO DO EVERYTHING

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

“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
― Claude Monet

Water Lilies (detail), 1914, 1917

GUSTAVE COURBET ~ BEAUTY

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

“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.”
― Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet (French, Realism, 1819–1877)

 Still Life with Apples and Pears, 1871

EDWARD STEICHEN ~ THE PHOTOGRAPHER

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

“The Flatiron” 1905 by Edward Steichen
1897-1973

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