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"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"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."

"Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order."

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

"is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time."

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🇺🇸Don Miller (author)

Business

1923–1993

"I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up."

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

"There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement."

"one day , Kirchner brought with him a volume from some bookstore with pictures of Meier-Graefe about the modern French artists. We were enthralled."

"many free images of paintings and drawings of Matthijs Maris, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature: Peter Weiss's The Investigation and Its Critics" by Robert Cohen, History and Memory Vol. 10, No. 2"

"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."

"I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art."

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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!"

"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."

"If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times."

"Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist."

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

"We exist on several different planes, and when we said nothing had any reason we were referring to the psychological and social plane."

"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?"

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🇬🇧Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Art

Arts and Crafts movement

1868–1928

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Art

Greek Revival architecture

1781–1841

"Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism."

"I am for a form of art, that sees itself as one of the many means through which human society can be changed."

"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."

"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."

"In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. . In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting."

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

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

"Elevate the soul by grandiose images beyond all everyday pettiness."

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

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

"original texts of Schwitter's 'Poemas' England 1946"

"'How can you exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art?' I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world."

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🇺🇸Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art

realism

1859–1937

"It is not by accident that I have chosen to be a religious painter…I paint the things I see and believe."

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🇨🇭Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Philosophy

1921–1990

"That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy."

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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."

"As time passes I become more and more afraid of my growing love of music. I don’t understand myself. I play solo sonatas by Bach: next to them, what is Böcklin? It makes me smile."

".. the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms'"

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