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"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

"Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work."

"The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication."

"I am not a 'book of the month' artist, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American art."

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🇩🇪Robert Rauschenberg

Art

contemporary art

1925–2008

"It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator."

"At my arrival , Fauvism. Cubism, and Futurism were in full swing. There was in the air the glamour of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunged full in it."

"Rood was in my possession the day after the appearance of Philippe Gille's book review, published by 'Le Figaro', 1881 . I abandon earth colors from 82 to 1884. On Pissarro's advice I stop using emerald green"

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🇫🇷Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art

Impressionism

1841–1919

"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!"

"Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate."

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🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

"I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis."

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🇺🇸John Singer Sargent

Art

Impressionism

1856–1925

"The Sargent Murals at Boston Public Library"

"Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around."

"to engrave and distribute for the benefit and knowledge and use of painters and sculptors and other knowledge-able persons."

"..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation."

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George Hendrik Breitner

Art

Hague School

1857–1923

"Hartenstraat - 1 o'clock in the afternoon - the flags throw shadow on the houses"

"El Greco – Biography, Style and Artworks"

"I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it."

"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."

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Caspar David Friedrich

Art

German Romanticism

1774–1840

"..the great white blanket of snow .. ..the essence of the utmost purity, beneath which nature prepares herself for a new life.."

"I found in your book the confirmation of my ultimate conclusions and the tools for deepening this aspect of the artistic problem."

"By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does."

"Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume."

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🇺🇸Elaine de Kooning

Journalism

abstract expressionism

1918–1989

"women painted women: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Mary Cassatt, and so forth. And I thought, men always painted the opposite sex, and I wanted to paint men as sex objects."

"There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist. It’s not like becoming a doctor or something. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."

"Somebody in Germany has been talking about my 'silence', saying that it is overrated. What does that mean? , he himself heard this 'rumor' from several American artists! ."

"Personal Webpage on Viewing Japanese Prints. General background on Hokusai, Edo and Osaka Ukiyo-e, and other print artists."

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Art

Expressionism

1880–1938

"though strange to the ordinary man, was not meant to shock, it was a pure and simple compulsion to integrate art and life.."

"Christina Lodder, 'Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design', Tate Papers, no.14, Autumn 2010"

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

"72 images of Arshile Gorky's painting art, on Wikiart"

"Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed."

"For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance."

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🇬🇧Tracey Emin

Art

Young British Artists

b. 1963

"There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol."

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