“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“…I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort — and disappointment and perseverance.”
— Vincent van Gogh,“Letter to Theo van Gogh,” 9 Sept. 1882
Vincent Van Gogh, Sunset at Montmajour, 1888
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
— Paul Cezanne
Harlequin, Paul Cezanne
1890
Patrick Wolf and the cygnets of the Ballet West by Tim Walker
embroidery
embroidery
“Violet Dawn” by Georgi Petrov
Michael Carini | The War of Art
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Gustav Klimt, Birch Forest I, 1903.
Montmartre, Paris. 1946.
Ed Clark
Salvador Dali
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
— Annette Messager
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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso