Alfred Stieglitz 1918, portrait de Georgia O’Keeffe “I think it’s so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary–you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe
“What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” — Pablo Picasso Picasso, The Tragedy, 1903
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life” ― Salvador Dalí Photo Dali and his wife Gala
“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.” Alberto Giacometti
29th September 1955: Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? …On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness. Pablo Picasso
Alice et le lapin Blanc Le petit chaperon rouge MARIE NEIGE Marie Neige is an autodidact…a real artist as we say. Art runs through her veins and you can clearly see this in her work. Her collages are fantastic, a magic world has come alive. Have to admit that I am a huge fan of her wonderful creations…
Alice et le lapin Blanc Le petit chaperon rouge MARIE NEIGE Marie Neige is an autodidact…a real artist as we say. Art runs through her veins and you can clearly see this in her work. Her collages are fantastic, a magic world has come alive. Have to admit that I am a huge fan of her wonderful creations…
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. Willem de Kooning Standing Man by Willem de Kooning
“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
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Miro
