Engraver

🇺🇸William Blake

Art

Romanticism

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

🇩🇪Max Ernst

Art

Surrealism

1891–1976

"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."

🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 January 29, conducted by Joseph S. Trovato; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"

🇫🇷André Derain

Art

cubism

1880–1954

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own."

🇬🇧Paul Nash (artist)

Art

Modernism

1889–1946

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

Albrecht Dürer

Art

German Renaissance

1471–1528

"Links to online museum images of all of Dürer's prints"

🇺🇸Jack Levine

Art

social realism

1915–2010

"I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?"

🇬🇧Damien Hirst

Art

Young British Artists

b. 1965

"The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel."

🇫🇷Berthe Morisot

Art

Impressionism

1841–1895

"Music and painting should never be literary, a very subtle distinction according to Renoir. As soon as I try to represent an individual, their physiognomy and attitudes, I become a literary artist."

🇺🇸Frank Stella

Art

Minimalism

1936–2024

"I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program."

🇪🇸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."

William Hogarth

Art

Realism

1697–1764

"Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive."

🇳🇱Paul Gabriël

Art

Hague School

1828–1903

"images of paintings and drawings by Paul Gabriël, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

🇫🇷Jean-François Millet

Art

Realism

1814–1875

"What do I care? 'I don't come here to please anybody. I come because there are antiques and models to teach me, that is all. Do I object to your figures, made of butter and honey ?"

🇫🇷Honoré Daumier

Politics

realism

1808–1879

"'The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go'"

🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"