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"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."

"This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carry his load."

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

"Of course I should be very happy to sell a drawing but I am happier still when a real artist like Weissenbruch says about an unsalable??? study or drawing: "That is true to nature, I could work from that myself."

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

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🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"complete text of De Kooning's lecture 'What Abstract Art Means to Me' February 5, 1951 - on the 'What is Abstract Art?' symposium, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 5, 1951"

"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."

"I am not a 'book of the month' artist, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American art."

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

"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'm very happy about what we did, what we do, and what we will do. That's why I again say to women from all over the world, and especially from Luxembourg: Let's be together, and let's fight together!"

"I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene."

"You’re as nutty as a peck of pecans, ma’am."

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🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"

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🇭🇺Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Art

Expressionism

1853–1919

"Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone."

"Before commencing this work I had begun to realize how children follow the Spirit."

"At my arrival , Fauvism. Cubism, and Futurism were in full swing. There was in the air the glamour of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunged full in it."

🇫🇷Charles-François Daubigny

Art

Barbizon school

1817–1878

"Adieu, adieu, I am going to see up there whether friend Corot has found me any new subjects for landscape painting."

"Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate."

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🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

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

"I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic."

"I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel."

"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."

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

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

"The theatre gives us representations of things , and there we see a sort of moving, speaking pictures but they are transient whereas painting remains and is always at hand."

"I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis."

"Rood was in my possession the day after the appearance of Philippe Gille's book review, published by 'Le Figaro', 1881 . I abandon earth colors from 82 to 1884. On Pissarro's advice I stop using emerald green"

"I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist."

"Thomas Eakins Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

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🇺🇸John Singer Sargent

Art

Impressionism

1856–1925

"The Sargent Murals at Boston Public Library"

"We don't criticize them, so why criticize Walter Keane just because his symbol of humanity is a child?"

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

"I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli in some degree."

"The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it."

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