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BACH ~ ON MUSIC
“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” Johann Sebastian Bach German composer and musician (1685-1750)
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FERNANDO BOTERO ~ THE NEED OF ART
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there’s more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It’s why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of biso
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JAMES ENSOR ~ ON HIS ART
“My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.” — Jame
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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ ON PAINTING
“So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.” Georgia O’Keeffe on Painting
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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ ON PAINTING
“So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.” Georgia O’Keeffe on Painting
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G.B. SHAW ~ PASSION AND INSPIRATION OF THE MUSE
* “I want my dark lady. I want my angel. I want my tempter. I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality. I want my inspiration, my folly, my happiness, my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my final sanity and sanctificat
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NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE ~ ON LIFE
“Life … is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don’t expect it.” Niki de Saint Phalle
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LANGSTON HUGHES ~ ON DREAMS
DREAMS Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967 / Missouri/The United States) Drawing of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss
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JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC
“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” Jean Cocteau
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PABLO PICASSO ~ ON CHAGALL
“When Chagall paints, you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel” -Pablo Picasso, 1961
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CHAGALL ~ ON ULTIMATE LOVE
“Her pale coloring, her eyes, how big and round and black they are! They are my eyes, my soul…I know this is she, my wife” -Marc Chagall, in My Life, on meeting Bella Rosenfeld for the first time
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DALI ~ ON CONFUSION
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.” Salvador Dali
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