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The wonderful Charles M Schulz (whom I was lucky enough to meet a few times) b otd 1922!
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."

Alas, Oleg Prokofiev: artist, and son of Sergei - whose music he loyally championed - d otd 1998. What a warm, charming man he was! I had the poignant privilege of playing at his funeral (too shortly after playing at his mother's). Much missed in the worlds of music and art...

Thoughts on art from Lucian Freud (d otd 2011):
"What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince."
"The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for."
"Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait."

Thoughts on art from Edouard Manet, b otd 1832:

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
"Colour is a matter of taste and of sensitivity."
"You have to have feeling... Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."

Hugh Lofting b otd 1886!

"People think they're so wonderful,' said Polynesia. "The world has been going on now for thousands of years. And the only thing in animal language that people have learned is that when a dog wags his tail he means 'I'm glad'! It's funny, isn't it?"

'Father of modern sculpture' Rodin b otd 1840:

"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature."
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms."

Poetic thoughts from Frances Hodgson Burnett (d otd 1924):
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
“It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”
“Everything's a story. You are a story - I am a story.”

William Blake, d otd 1827:

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”

Emily Bronte b otd 1818!
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."

Thoughts on art from Edgar Degas (b otd 1834):

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."