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Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor, was BOTD 16 October 1620. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the Style Louis XIV.
"I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers.” Pierre Auguste Renoir evolved a technique of broken brushstrokes and bold combinations of colors.
His floral paintings remain some of the most popular artworks in the world. Flowers, he said, made people happy.
I loved reading this to my kids. I never realized author was from Northern Ireland. 30 million copies, sold. I believe it.
Guess how much I love you.
I love you this much, he said.
Hmm, that is a lot, thought Little Nutbrown Hare."
So very beautiful. https://t.co/uSqlUJGgJq
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes."
Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor, DOTD 1917
“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that."
“Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. Magic could never die while the sun had power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.”
Hugh Lofting, author, DOTD 1947
How wonderful. I like this artist.
Funny, have studied Greece, minored in Classics, know Greek & Latin roots, adore Greek mythology, taught Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and yet never been to Greece. Bucket list, 'fore I die. https://t.co/tePndnDjuu
“A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.”
“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you...Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you forever.” Tarzan
Edgar R Burroughs, Amer. soldier, author BOTD 1875
RIP Edward Hopper, died OTD, 1967. Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker.
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."
"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
"I am glad we do not have to kill the stars."
"I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains."
Ernest Hemingway
Sunsets. There's something special about a Georgia O'Keefe sunset that evokes the miraculous, the compassionate in us. See the sunset!
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl R. Rogers