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"3 miglia più in là si trova li edifici della vena del rame e dello argento, presso una terra detta Pra Santo Petro e vene di ferro e cose fantastiche. ( Ancient Italian)"

Leonardo da Vinci· b. 1452View quote →

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🇺🇸Tim Burton

Entertainment

b. 1958

"Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?"

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie."

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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles."

"Yesterday's just a memory; tomorrow's never what it's supposed to be."

"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'"

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🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"For really, when you think of all the life and death problems in the art of the Renaissance, who cares if a Chevalier is laughing or that a young girl has a red blouse on."

"Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art"

"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."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

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🇧🇷Steve Jobs

Business

"Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste."

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger."

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🇩🇪Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Art

Impressionism

1884–1976

"..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices."

"Personal Wepage on Hokusai includes a bio and gallery"

"Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is irrelevant and counter-productive to our survival."

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

"We have rejected reason because we have found another reason that could be called trans-rational, which has its own law, construction and sense.. .This reason has found a way-Cubism-of expressing the object."

"Let's transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the 'el', and may his brain become a long street of buildings 224 stories high."

"pictures of Jasper Johns artin the National Gallery of Art"

"The time when physically nothing is happening is equally important."

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

"I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days."

"He’s no politician. He’s a businessman. He knows how to talk. He can give an hour speech without notes . . . He’s blunt."

"Eye : "Historically, copying the Masters was considered to be a part of the painter’s training, not the final product", by Rian Hughes"

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

"I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision."

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🇫🇷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."

"It is the act of painting, not the finished painting."

"We say booty. I'm not quite sure about 'posterior'. I'll try to keep that in the back of my mind. 'What are you doing?' 'I'm shaking my posterior.'"

"the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment.."

"Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

"The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements."

"Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to."

"In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself."

"Light in nature creates movement in color. The movement is provided by the relationships of uneven measures, of colors contrasts among themselves and constitutes Reality ."

"A work can be as powerful as it can be thought to be. Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface."

"text: 'A short history of Josef Albers' interaction with colors', by Brenda Danilowitz"

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Notable Quotes

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect."

— Leonardo da Vinci, b. 1452View →

"Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love"

— Clive Barker, b. 1952View →

"The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience..."

— Leonardo da Vinci, b. 1452View →

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last"

— Bob Dylan, b. 2000View →

"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."

— Leonardo da Vinci, b. 1452View →

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