"Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy."

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) in

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“We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate.”
Doris Lessing (Shikasta)

🖌Bryan Larsen🇺🇸Ad Astra

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Happy Birthday to Brigitte Bardot 🎂🎂🎂🎂

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Geographer, naturalist and explorer Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was 1769. Scroll through his amazing books: https://t.co/xUacO4CHCs

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One of the most famous sculptures in the world, Rodin's "The Kiss" was, in fact, meant to be a depiction of doomed lovers Paolo & Francesca. It was even originally titled, "Francesca da Rimini".

This is Anselm Feuerbach's (#BornOnThisDay) 1863 rendition of the pair. 🎨

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution!


- Nude Descending a Staircase no.2 (1912)
vs
- Nude Descending a Staircase (1949)

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"Thank goodness I was never sent to it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) in

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"Thank goodness I was never sent to it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) in

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Eleanor Siddal, model, muse, wife, painter and poet

J.E. Millais, Study for Ophelia, 1852
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lizzie's portrait, 1853-4
Self-portrait, 1854
One of Elizabeth E. Siddal's poems

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1839 (especialmente para os meus amigos do Brasil)

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in 1943 was American chemist Richard Smalley. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Harry Kroto and Robert Curl for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene or "buckyballs". There are 3 entries in the PDB with buckyballs! Find them at https://t.co/aNHm3pLY6x

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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr Seuss✍
Ugo Celada da Virgilio🎨
dearest Alessandra and all friends, thanks for your sharing ❤

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"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25, 1803)

🎨 Carlo Dolci (also "The Trinity in Glory", 1640

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