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"One of the difficulties is retaining a backbone of steel to meet the criticism you receive and remaining vulnerable so things can still touch you."

Maggi Hambling

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2019-10-23


"When you're looking through a what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into

Chantal Joffe

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2019-10-06


"I work intuitively...exploring 'what if' and experimenting with what might happen if I mix and match."
⁠—Dindga McCannon

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2019-07-31

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” - Pablo Picasso.

Throwback to "VICTORY OVER IGNORANCE" by Magnus Gjoen.

Find more of his artwork at https://t.co/A8XMxEhRqB

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2019-07-15


"I have a tendency to contradict myself, and I don't mind that. I fear things that make too much sense."
—Sylvie Fleury

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2019-06-24

"The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke." - Jerzy Kosinski

Shop all Magnus his art at https://t.co/A8XMxEhRqB

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2019-06-24


"I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an in spite of the fact that I benefit from it."
—Wangechi Mutu

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2019-06-22


Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly... has saved my life on a regular basis.
―Carrie Mae Weems

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2019-06-20


"Something about what it means to be a human being is most embodied in an area of paint."
–Mira Schor

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2019-06-01

“Inspiration comes during work, not before it.” — Madeleine L'Engle 👨‍🎨🖼

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2019-05-30

1844
Mary Cassatt was in what is now
"If you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up."

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2019-05-22


“One of my tasks as a is to...locate the ancestral burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones sing, write it down.”
―Suzan-Lori Parks

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2019-05-11

1922
Marjorie Cameron was in
"I became associated with women who were all considered for... not following the chosen paths."

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2019-04-23

1898
British-American artist Clare Leighton was in
"It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree."

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2019-04-12

1923
Dody Weston Thompson was in
"I like finding rather than accumulating... like an eternal treasure hunt of the eye."

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2019-04-11