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“Frida Kahlo lay cheek to cheek with everything she depicted. That she became a world legend is in part due to the fact that in the dark age in which we are living … the sharing of pain is one of the essential preconditions for a refinding of dignity and hope.”
~ John Berger
"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
"Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls."
~ Edvard Munch #Botd in 1863
"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."
~ Otto Dix #Botd in 1891
"Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth"
~ Leo Tolstoy #Dotd in 1910
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.~Georgia O'Keeffe
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
~ John Keats
Philosophia et septem artes liberales, the seven liberal arts. From the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)
“The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens withered in the heavens;
They fall with slow and lingering descent.
And in the nights the heavy Earth, too, falls
From out the stars into the Solitude.
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