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VINCENT VAN GOGH ~ TO LIVE MORE MUSICALLY

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“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
― Vincent van Gogh

The Old Tower in the Fields, 1884

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PAUL GAUGUIN ~ BEAUTY

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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

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CLAUDE MONET ~ A DESIRE TO DO EVERYTHING

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“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

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GUSTAVE COURBET ~ BEAUTY

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“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

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RENE MAGRITTE ~ THE UNKNOWN

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“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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PIERRE BONNARD ~ ON COLORS

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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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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA ~ DO NOT COPY

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“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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THE HUMAN SOUND OF THE VIOLIN

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“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments”
― Charles-Auguste de Beriot

Edmund Charles Tarbell, “Girl with Violin (the Violinist),” 1890

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ~ THE VALUE OF ART

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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw

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HENRI MATISSE ~ LIVING ON BORROWED TIME

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“I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”
― Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Dessert: Harmony in Red, 1908

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