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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

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

"pdf - selected quotes of Vincent van Gogh, by the former director of the MoMA; Alfred H. Barr, 1935"

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🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"For really, when you think of all the life and death problems in the art of the Renaissance, who cares if a Chevalier is laughing or that a young girl has a red blouse on."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things."

"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."

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

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Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art

Expressionism

1876–1907

"I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!"

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🇨🇦James Nicoll

Literature

"It takes a courageous Mormon to turn to archaeology to support their argument"

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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!"

"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms."

"Beyond the Visible - The Art of Odilon Redon" - MoMA exhibition"

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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 Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website, works at Phillips Collection"

"Since not even sufficient time for my main business remains to me. Production is taking a larger magnitude at a faster tempo, and can no longer wholly keep up with these children. They issue forth."

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

"For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future."

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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.."

"In: POPism ; as quoted in Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements , selected by Neil Printz, as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467"

"to be completely empty of ideas at the moment of setting brush to canvas, the head being just as empty as the canvas."

"to engrave and distribute for the benefit and knowledge and use of painters and sculptors and other knowledge-able persons."

"I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream."

"Fautrier's exhibition made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me."

"..color being enigmatic in itself.. ..then to be logical we cannot use it any other way than enigmatically.."

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🇬🇧Patrick Heron (author)

Art

contemporary art

1920–1999

"On the night I came to know Jesus Christ, I had a vision. I believe that vision will soon be a reality. I know God's hand has been on my life."

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George Hendrik Breitner

Art

Hague School

1857–1923

"Hartenstraat - 1 o'clock in the afternoon - the flags throw shadow on the houses"

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

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🇺🇸Jackson Pollock

Art

abstract expressionism

1912–1956

"I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today – the more immediate, the more direct – the greater the possibilities of making a direct – of making a statement."

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🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"

"In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself."

"I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

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

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🇺🇸Arthur Wesley Dow

Art

Arts and Crafts movement

1857–1922

"This man has one dominating idea..to fill space in a beautiful way."

"'Colour Chart I', the complete text of the interview with Christoph Grunenberg, 1 May 2009; 'Sixty years at full intensity', Tate 2009"

"I did not teach painting but seeing. I concentrated on the basic courses for beginners. I taught drawing , color and design . And so the graduate students came 'down' to the basic courses for beginners."

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