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DOROTHEA TANNING ~ ON ART

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“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity”

Dorothea Tanning

(1910-2012)

Some Roses and their Phantoms, 1952
Dorothea Tanning

HENRI MATISSE ~ BEING POSITIVE

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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse

Bouquet (Vase with Two Handles). 1907.

EDOUARD VUILLARD ~ THE MUSIC OF PAINTING

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“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting”

Edouard Vuillard

LUCIAN FREUD ~ AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ART

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” My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.”
Lucian Freud

JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS ~ HOPE AND AMBITION

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“My maturity has not fulfilled the hopes and ambitions of my youth”

John Everett Millais

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