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HENRY JAMES ~ ON PASSION OR MADNESS OF ART

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Portrait of Henry James

“We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.?”

Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916) , noted American-born English essayist, critic, and author of the realism movement wrote The Ambassadors (1903), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and The Portrait of a Lady (1881).

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE ~ ON THE VALUE OF ART

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“Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don’t agree with you you’re in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?”

Frederick Carl Frieseke

American Impressionist Painter, 1874-1939

GUSTAVE MOREAU ~ LEDA

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Leda

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Watercolour with gouache
c1875-c1880
21 x 34 cm
(8.27″ x 13.39″)
Gustave Moreau Museum (Paris, France)

LEDA

Come not with kisses

not with caresses

of hands and lips and murmurings;

come with a hiss of wings

and sea-touch tip of a beak

antr treading of wet, webbed, wave-working feet

into the marsh-soft belly.

DH. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)

Leda, 1865-1875

Gustave Moreau

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ CITY NIGHT

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“City Night” 1926 by Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ CITY NIGHT

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“City Night” 1926 by Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986

FRANK DICKSEE ~ ROMEO AND JULIET AND THEIR DEADLY PASSION

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“Romeo and Juliet”
Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)

“For you and I are past our dancing days.”
William Shakespeare

EMILY BRONTE ~ DREAMS

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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte
English writer 1818-1848

ALFRED STEVENS ~ YOUNG WOMAN READING

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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)
Jeune femme lisant, 1856

CHILDE HASSAM ~ AT THE PIANO

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“At the Piano” 1908 by Childe Hassam.

RICHTER ~ ON MUSIC

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Music is the poetry of the air.

~ Sviatoslav Richter

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