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Letter "A" » Art
«The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth, which sweeps you along in his passion»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(Painter)
| About:
Art
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conveying, conveys, current, puts, seize, sweeps, sweep away, The Current, work of art, wrap
«The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.»
«The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Painting,
World
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make sense, My picture, paint, paint a picture, pictured, pictures, Picture It, picturing
«The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.»
«This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Art,
Dreams
| Keywords:
actor, at once, audience, Creation, critic, dreamer, essentially, manager, prompt, prompter, scene, stage, subjective, theater, The Dream
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Nature,
Painting
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work»
«Time is the great art of man.»
«Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
abstract art, distinct, in other words, Or logic
«The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.»
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