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🇬🇧David Hockney

Art

pop art

1937–2026

"'Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously'."

🇩🇪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."

🇫🇷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."

Gerard Bilders

Art

Hague School

1838–1865

"I am searching for a tone, which we call 'colored grey'. I mean that all colors, even the strongest, can be brought together in such a way as to give the impression of a warm, vital grey."

🇩🇪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."

🇳🇱Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Art

Hague School

1824–1903

"I am here the doctor , bringing his morning visit. I feel them all the pulse. One I say: Wait, I'll make you an ointment, so you will refresh completely. The other I say: Friend, you need air, and even more the light."

🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"

Jonathan Richardson

Art

1667–1745

"The pleasure that painting as a dumb art give us , is like what we have from misic, its beautiful forms, vlour and harmony are to the eye what sounds and the harmony are to the ear."

Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"..And his painting is like the wind, like a breeze blowing the paint across the canvas, so unreal, so loose and far away from the worldly life."

Matthijs Maris

Art

Hague School

1839–1917

"The Brothers Maris , ed. Charles Holme; text: D.C. Thomson; publishers, Offices of 'The Studio', London - Paris, 1907"

Willem Roelofs

Art

Hague School

1822–1897

"There is still some study here for the Dutch landscape, and I believe the best I can do is to stay some time longer."

🇫🇷Aristide Maillol

Art

Symbolism

1861–1944

"I seek beauty, not character. For me portraiture and statuary are completely opposed to each other."

George Hendrik Breitner

Art

Hague School

1857–1923

"I have also been working on the large canvas for a few months. and it has turned into a cavalry charge, which I hope for sure to be able to exhibit in Spring."

Anton Mauve

Art

Hague School

1838–1888

"our Goddess is sometimes so erratic, just when you want to speak to her, she is hiding and if you did not immediately think of her, she comes to give hanks incessantly and is so kind, anyway - we shall see.."

🇬🇧David Cameron

Politics

1933–2012

"I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it."

Piet Mondrian

Art

Symbolism

1872–1944

"It is of small importance whether De Stijl still exists as a 'group'; a new style was born, a new aesthetic created; it needs only to be understood – and cultivated."

🇪🇸Pablo Picasso

Art

Post-impressionism

1881–1973

"I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. ."

🇪🇸Francisco Goya

Art

Romanticism

1746–1828

"A bride-to-be, Discreet and penitent, she presents herself to her parents in this guise."

🇳🇱Jacob Maris

Art

Hague School

1837–1899

"When I'm sitting in front of my easel again.. .I'm going to make things that no one would have expected of me."

🇺🇸Mary Cassatt

Art

Impressionism

1844–1926

"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."

Johannes Bosboom

Art

Hague School

1817–1891

"Johannes Bosboom, by Gerarda Hermina Marius - in free pdf; publish, M. Nijhoff, 1917, 's-Gravenhage / The Hague"

Sina Mesdag-van Houten

Art

Hague School

1834–1909

"free pictures of her paintings and drawings: on the website, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam"

🇩🇪Lovis Corinth

Art

Expressionism

1858–1925

"129 artworks of Lovis Corinth, on Wikiart"

Willem Maris

Art

Hague School

1844–1910

"The Brothers Maris , ed. Charles Holme; English text: D.C. Thomson; publishers: Offices of 'The Studio', London - Paris, 1907"

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.."

🇺🇸James McNeill Whistler

Art

Aestheticism

1834–1903

"May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!"

Jozef Israëls

Art

Hague School

1824–1911

"Biographical information, life facts and dates of Jozef Israëls, in the Dutch R.K.D. Archive"

Johan Jongkind

Art

1819–1891

"a biography of Johan Jongkind with art-images"

Giorgio Morandi

Art

Futurism

1890–1964

"If you could see what these flowers are. ). No modern painter has painted flowers like these. Perhaps only Renoir"

Käthe Kollwitz

Art

Expressionism

1867–1945

"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."