SALVADOR DALI ~ ON CONFUSION
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life” ― Salvador Dalí Photo Dali and his wife Gala
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FERDINAND HODLER ~ ON ART
“The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things…the idea of unity.” Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) The Dream, 1897
EMIL NOLDE ~ AN ILLUMINATING LIFE
“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties” Emil Nolde (1867-1956) Mask Still Life III 1911 Irises and Poppies
SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” ― Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí, painting The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946
DOROTHEA TANNING ~ ON ART
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity” Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) Some Roses and their Phantoms, 1952 Dorothea Tanning
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ~ HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ♥ The Kiss Konstantin Somov – 1914
HENRI MATISSE ~ BEING POSITIVE
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” Henri Matisse Bouquet (Vase with Two Handles). 1907.
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
GIORGIO MORANDI ~ CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUSNESS…
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that… the objective world… never really exists as we see and understand it… has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964) Giorgio Morandi Natura Morta, 1929
LUCIAN FREUD ~ AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ART
” My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.” Lucian Freud
