Art · Reflection
HOPPER ~ ON GREAT ART
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” Edward Hopper
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ANAIS NIN ~ ON FRIENDSHIP
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin
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CHAGALL ~ ON TALENT
“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.” Marc Chagall
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OSCAR WILDE ~ ON ART
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” Oscar Wilde
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JOSEPH LEFEBVRE ~ PANDORA
“Pandora” 1882 by Jules Joseph Lefebvre In Greek mythology, Pandora (ancient Greek, Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν “all” and δῶρον “gift”, thus “giver of all”, “all-endowed”) was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered
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EDWARD HOPPER ~ LE BISTRO
This painting is one of my favorites, I can look at this image for a very long time, get lost in this painting, like I am the one sitting there, drinking a glass of wine. Le Bistro or The Wine Shop (1909) Edward Hopper
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LEONOR FINI ~ SURREAL WOMAN PAINTER
La Confiserie (1932) Leonor Fini (August 30, 1907 – January 18, 1996) was an Argentine surrealist painter. Life and work Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she was raised in Trieste, Italy. She moved to Milan at the age of 17, and then to Paris, in either 1931 or 1932. There, she b
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE THRUTH
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top” Virginia Woolf
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GABRIEL FAURE ~ ON MUSIC
“To me…music exists to elevate us as far as possible above everyday life.” ~Gabriel Faure
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SHAW ~ ON DREAMS AND REALITY
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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GUSTAV MOREAU ~ THE WORLD
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream. Gustav Moreau The Sphinx, 1886
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MODIGLIANI ~ ON THE UNCONSCIOUS
“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.” Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920
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