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🇺🇸William Blake

Art

Romanticism

"Sing louder aroundTo the bells' cheerful sound,While our sports shall be seenOn the ecchoing green."

🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"S’il est terrifiant de penser que la vie puisse être à la merci de la multiplication de ces infiniment petits, il est consolant aussi d’espérer que la science ne restera pas toujours impuissante devant de tels ennemis."

🇫🇷Henri Matisse

Art

Impressionism

1869–1954

"Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art"

🇬🇧David Hockney

Art

pop art

1937–2026

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

🇨🇭Alberto Giacometti

Art

Surrealism

1901–1966

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

🇫🇷Édouard Manet

Art

Impressionism

1832–1883

"No one knows what it feels like to be constantly insulted . It sickens and destroys you.. .The fools! They've never stopped telling me I'm inconsistent ; they couldn't have said anything more flattering."

🇫🇷Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art

Impressionism

1841–1919

"Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard."

"The Artist Winston Churchill Loved to Hate"

🇫🇷Édouard Vuillard

Art

Post-impressionism

1868–1940

"Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it."

🇬🇧Aubrey Beardsley

Art

Symbolism

1872–1898

"I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all "impossible". You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows."

🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"Sylvester: What about figuration in a more literal sense?"

🇩🇪Otto Dix

Art

Expressionism

1891–1969

"I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness."

🇫🇷Berthe Morisot

Art

Impressionism

1841–1895

"c. 240 images of paintings, drawings and pastels of Berthe Morisot, on Wikiart"

🇩🇪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."

🇺🇸Helen Frankenthaler

Art

abstract expressionism

1928–2011

"140 images of painting art by Helen Frankenthaler, on Wikiart"

🇫🇷Narcisse Virgilio Díaz

Art

Barbizon school

1807–1876

"Your women bathing come from the cow house."

🇳🇱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."

M. C. Escher

Mathematics

modern art

1898–1972

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

🇫🇷Paul Cézanne

Art

Post-impressionism

1872–1947

"I was very pleased with myself when I discovered that sunlight could not be reproduced; it had to be represented by something else.. ..by colour."

🇺🇸Roy Lichtenstein

Art

pop art

1923–1997

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

🇬🇧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."

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."

🇫🇷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."

🇩🇪Otto Mueller

Art

Expressionism

1874–1930

"190 images of paintings and prints, by Otto Mueller, on WikiArt"

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"

🇫🇷Georges Braque

Art

cubism

1882–1963

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

🇫🇷Eugène Delacroix

Art

Romanticism

1798–1863

"Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume."

🇫🇷Kees van Dongen

Art

Die Brücke

1877–1968

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

"A modern painter may have many audiences or one or none; he paints in relation to none of them, though he longs for the audience of other modern painters."

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

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."

Marc Chagall

Art

Catalan modernism

1887–1985

"Only a child had its place on the cross, and that was enough for me .. ..in the exact sense there was no cross but a blue child in the air. The cross interested me less."

🇨🇭Paul Klee

Art

Surrealism

1879–1940

"Reality and dream simultaneously, and myself makes a third in the party, completely at home here. This will be fine."

🇪🇸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. ."

🇫🇷Maurice Denis

Art

Pont-Aven School

1870–1943

"Art is no longer a visual sensation that we gather, like a photograph, as it were, of nature. No, it is a creation of our spirit, for which nature is only the occasion."

🇫🇷Marcel Marceau

Art

1923–2007

"In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people."

🇪🇸Francisco Goya

Art

Romanticism

1746–1828

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