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CAMILLE CLAUDEL, A FEMALE GENIUS ~ BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK

A Female Genius… “You’re wrong to think it’s about you. You’re a sculptor, Rodin, not a sculpture. You ought to know. I am that old woman with nothing on her bones. And the aging young girl… that’s also me. And the man is me too. Not you. I gave him my toughness. He gave me his emptiness in return. There you are… three times me. The Holy Trinity, trinity of emptiness.” Among the female artists I admire is Camille Claudel a French sculptor and graphic artist who lived from...

30 April 2013 | My own creations, Passion Of Art | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ A FEELING OF SOLITUDE

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have? She lived in a deserted, silent house. The sound of her own footsteps in the empty rooms, the silence of the cold streets beyond the closed windows, the rain and the snow, the early darkness, the green lamp beside her that burned throughout the long evenings and which she watched for hours on end until its light began to waver before her weary eyes: this...

26 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ~ ON LIFE AND POETS

“The beautiful is always bizarre.” ― Charles Baudelaire “An artist is a kaleidoscope endowed with consciousness…an ego athirst for the non-ego, and reflecting it at every moment in energies more vivid than life itself, always inconstant and fleeting. The poet is like those wandering souls who go looking for a body, he enters as he likes into each man’s personality. For him alone everything is vacant…The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and...

17 April 2013 | Poetical Visions | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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JEAN COCTEAU ~ A SURREAL THOUGHT

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” ― Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) 1955 in his apartment

20 March 2013 | Art & the Unconscious Mind | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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COLETTE ~ ON MEMORIES

“It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.” ― Colette, My Mother’s House & Sido

21 February 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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ANDRE GIDE ~ YOUR INNER SELF

” Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.” Andre Gide

19 February 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , | 0 Comments
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HENRI MATISSE ~ BEING POSITIVE

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” Henri Matisse Bouquet (Vase with Two Handles). 1907.

13 February 2013 | Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... | , , , | 0 Comments
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EDOUARD VUILLARD ~ THE MUSIC OF PAINTING

“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting” Edouard Vuillard

12 February 2013 | Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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EDGAR DEGAS ~ THE MYSTERY OF A PAINTING

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. Edgar Degas Self portrait 1855

28 July 2012 | Art & the Unconscious Mind, Passion Of Art | , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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PAUL CEZANNE ~ FEELINGS & ART

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all… feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle. Paul Cezanne Photo: Cezanne in his studio, 1904

27 July 2012 | Just a bit of everything and everyone..., Passion Of Art | , , , | 1 Comment
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