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'Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art'
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir, La Vague, 1879
'There cannot be creation without a lot of energy'
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde, Fuchsschwänze, 1939
'The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment.'
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, Study of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966
'People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images'
René Magritte
René Magritte, Les compagnons de la peur, 1942
'There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain'
Georges Braque
Georges Braque, Selene, 1923
'Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears'
John Lennon
John Lennon by Andy Warhol, 1985
Andy Warhol,
Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482), 1984
'My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information'
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas, Brides of Dracula, 1997
'You get to the point where you can feel a certain sensation of light'
Arthur Dove
Arthur Dove, Sunrise, 1941
'To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage'
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pelvis IV, 1944
Georgia O'Keeffe, photo by © Laura Gilpin, 1953