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PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR ~ BEAUTY AND ART

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“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Camille Monet and her son Jean in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

 

FRANCIS BACON ~ IMAGINATION

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not…”

Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Study for the Nurse in the Battleship Potemkin, 1957.

GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS ~ THE IDEAL ARTIST

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“The ideal artist…retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds it with creative lust.”

George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)

A Day in June, 1913

GUSTAV KLIMT ~ LOOK AT MY WORK AND SEE WHO I AM

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“I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.”
― Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt, Pallas Athena, 1898

CLAUDE MONET ~ LOVE FOR ART

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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” 

Claude Monet

Water Lilies, c. 1915, Neue Pinakothek, Munich

FRIDA KAHLO ~ THE STRANGEST PERSON IN THE WORLD

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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Frida Kahlo

Gisèle Freund:
Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, 1951

AMEDEO MODIGLIANI ~ SAVE YOUR DREAM

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It is your duty in life to save your dream.”
― Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)

Amedeo Modigliani, Christina, 1916

 

FRIDA KAHLO – NOTHING IS ABSOLUTE

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“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

Anonymous photographer:
Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE – A WORLD IN ART

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“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE – A WORLD IN ART

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“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe

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