Ceramicist

🇫🇷Henri Matisse

Art

Impressionism

1869–1954

"I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things."

🇫🇷Émile Gallé

Art

Art Nouveau

1846–1904

"Our roots are in the depths of the woods-on the banks of streams and among the mosses."

Asger Jorn

Art

COBRA

1914–1973

"To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art."

🇬🇧Emily Carr

Literature

Expressionism

1871–1945

"Canadian 'History Minute' spot on Emily Carr"

🇫🇷Paul Gauguin

Art

Post-impressionism

1848–1903

"In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?"

🇩🇪Lubo Kristek

Art

b. 1943

"Art is nothing abstract, theoretical. We cannot detach it or set it apart. Art must live, and I want to be the intermediary of life."

🇫🇷Fernand Léger

Art

cubism

1881–1955

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

🇫🇷Kees van Dongen

Art

Die Brücke

1877–1968

"Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life."

🇪🇸Joan Miró

Art

Surrealism

1893–1983

"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."

🇪🇸Pablo Picasso

Art

Post-impressionism

1881–1973

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

🇬🇧Bernard Leach

Education

1887–1979

"It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter ,with the nature of his materials."

🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

Literature

theatre of the absurd

1889–1963

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

🇫🇷Maurice de Vlaminck

Art

cubism

1876–1958

"..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation.."

🇮🇹Giacomo Balla

Art

Futurism

1871–1958

"Futurism, as it has developed over six years, has solidified and surpassed Impressionism, has proposed plastic dynamism, atmospheric modeling, and the interpenetration of planes and states of mind."

🇫🇷Pierre Soulages

Art

abstract art

1919–2022

"I have always thought that he more limited the means, the stronger the expression. That may explain the choice of a small palette."

🇫🇷Wifredo Lam

Art

Surrealism

1902–1982

"I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country but by thoroughly expressing the Negro spirit, the beauty of the art of the blacks."

Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"..people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk."

🇮🇹Fortunato Depero

Art

1892–1960

"The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—"

🇺🇸Jerry Brown

Politics

1938–2016

"I listened, and I've come to the conclusion I just don't trust him."