The journal
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Reflections · Reflection
“Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.” Wassily Kandinsky Seascape with Steamer Wassily Kandinsky – 1906
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“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.” ― Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The Entrance of the Masked Dancers, c. 1884.
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“I don’t dig beneath the surface for things that don’t appear before my own eyes.” John Singer Sargent At Torre Galli: Ladies in a Garden John Singer Sargent – 1910 Pomegranates John Singer Sargent – 1908
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“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.” ― Vincent van Gogh The Old Tower in the Fields, 1884
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Summer, 1878, James Tissot. “It is imagination that inflames the passions by painting in a fascinating or terrible fashion an object which impresses us.” James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) Study for (also known as Woman in an Interior) James Tissot – circa 1883-1885 James Jacques J
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Blue Trees, 1888 “Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery – idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful – the beauty that is personal – the only beauty that is human.” ― Paul Gauguin, Intimate Journals
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“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” ― Claude Monet Water Lilies (detail), 1914, 1917
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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.” ― Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet (French, Realism, 1819–1877) Still Life with Apples and Pears, 1871
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“Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.” ― Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes El Quitasol, 1777
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Stuffed Shirts (Les Plastrons) Pablo Picasso – 1900 We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” ― Pablo
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“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” Frida Kahlo
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“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” ― Paul Cézanne Still Life with Apples and a Pear Paul Cezanne – 1888-1890
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