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Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking… - page 4

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ THE UNKNOWN

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“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
Jack in the Pulpit №V.

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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI ~ LOOKING AT ART

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“When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.”

Alberto Giacometti

Giacometti ~ Life Magazine

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GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS ~ I PAINT IDEAS

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“I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.”

George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)

Female Figure
Plaster

George Frederick Watts
The Wife of Pygmalion
1868

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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,

PAUL GAUGUIN ~ INNER POWER OF COLOR

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“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”
― Paul Gauguin

A Seashore (Martinique), 1887
Paul Gauguin

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CLAUDE MONET ~ THE VALUE OF THE SURROUNDING ATMOSPHERE

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‘For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the air and the light, which vary continuously. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.’

Claude Monet
The Seine at Port-Villez
La Seine à Port-Villez
1894

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HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that

EDGAR DEGAS ~ ART AND MYSTERY

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“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”
Edgar Degas

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse),

1873–1876


Edgar Degas,
“Four Dancers,” 1899.

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HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that

PISSARRO ~ THE WISH OF AN ARTIST

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“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (1831 – 1903)
The Garden in Pontoise, 1877

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JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS ~ PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTER

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“I may honestly say that I have never consciously placed an idle touch upon canvas…”

John Everett Millais (1829 – 1896)

Ophelia, 1851-1852

Portrait of a Girl (Sophie Gray), 1857

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VINCENT VAN GOGH ~ PAINTINGS ARE EVERYWHERE

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“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
― Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, 1866

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Trees in the Asylum Garden, 1889.

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HENRI MATISSE ~ WE BELONG TO OUR TIME

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“…for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.”
― Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse at work on his Cut-Outs at his home in Nice, 1953

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Henri Matisse, The Reader, Marguerite Matisse

1906

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