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

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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


"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

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

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


"Mein Arbeitsprozess verläuft letztendlich immer gleich: Ich laufe umher, denke nach, zeichne und am Ende male ich."
—Finnish Anna Retulainen

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2019-04-05

1647
Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02


"Every work of is an expression of an era and for that reason alone is it interesting."
—Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923)

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2019-04-01


Austrailan Mirka Mora was in Paris.
"#Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the they choose me."

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2019-03-18

"A paper butterfly is a symbol of metamorphosis, for me a beautiful, contemplative melancholy..."

Now available, Kerry Darlington's Wish Upon A Paper Butterfly. An enchanting unique edition with 3D elements: https://t.co/p0cXEjcAEU

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2019-03-12


"I am a scavenger salvaging lost aesthetics. My has been an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable."
—Carrie Ann Baade

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2019-02-19


"There's a dark side of us, the underbelly, and then the inspirational things that are in us, I put those two things in [the work]."
–Lee Bontecou

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2019-01-15


"There were quite a few who became well-known for a certain kind of work & then began to copy themselves. It was a weakness in what became their oeuvre...That’s been a mantra of mine: to never repeat myself."
–Louise Fishman

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2019-01-14


"However fond one is of one's husband, one does not relinquish a life of work without some difficulty; affection is a very pretty thing provided it is coupled with something to fill one's day."
–Berthe Morisot, 1841 in

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2019-01-14