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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."

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

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

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

"“I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it’s barely famous."

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

"images of his art, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

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Sina Mesdag-van Houten

Art

Hague School

1834–1909

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

🇳🇱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."

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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!"

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

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

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🇬🇧Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Art

Arts and Crafts movement

1868–1928

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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"

"Isaac and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer and I also got a wipe of it.."

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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.."

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

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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."

"No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it."

"Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City"

"Edward Lear Home Page at NonsenseLit.org"

"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."

"Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you’re doing a so-called landscape painting."

"The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself."

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

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

"The various objects of the universe may be constant, at times, but their reciprocal relationships always vary."

"The Enigma of Henry Moore" by Brian McAvera. Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001: Vol. 20, No. 6."

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🇫🇷Maurice de Vlaminck

Art

cubism

1876–1958

"..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation.."

"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."

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🇩🇪Wilhelm Busch (pastor)

Art

1832–1908

"All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God."

"One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

"In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost."

"My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine."

"The cow exists for the light that comes to glide along and over the animal - the light doesn't exist for he cow."

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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Art

Hague School

1803–1862

"The free artist must also have the spunk to tear himself away from his first ideas, for experience teaches us that these are not always pure, but often false."

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