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🎨 #PierrePuvisdeChavannes, French painter and illustrator, #DOTD 24 October 1898. #Art #Painting
🎨 #GeorgeBouzianis, Greek painter and educator, #DOTD 22 October 1959. #Art #Painting
🎨 #GiovanniPaoloPanini, Italian painter and architect, #DOTD 21 October 1765. #Art #Painting
🎨 #TAlexanderHarrison, American painter and educator, #DOTD 13 October 1930. #Art #Painting
"Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever."
✒ Sir #ThomasWyatt, English poet and diplomat, #DOTD 11 October 1542. #Poetry #Literature
🎨 #RobertFalk, Russian painter and educator, #DOTD 1 October 1958. #Art #Painting
🎨 #JanAsselijn, Dutch painter, #DOTD 1 October 1652. #Art #Painting
🎨 #WinslowHomer, American painter, illustrator, and engraver, #DOTD 29 September 1910. #Art #Painting
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes."
Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor, DOTD 1917
"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
✒ #RemydeGourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic, #DOTD 27 September 1915. #Poetry #Literature
“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that."
“Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. Magic could never die while the sun had power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.”
Hugh Lofting, author, DOTD 1947
🎨 #XuBeihong, Chinese painter and educator, #DOTD 26 September 1953. #Art #Painting
🎨 #EugeneLanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator, #DOTD 13 September 1946. #Art #Painting
🎨 #AndreaMantegna, Italian painter and engraver, #DOTD 13 September 1506. #Art #Painting
DOTD - 12/09/1863 - Elizabeth Dickens. She was buried next to her husband in Highgate cemetery. CD composed the (less than fulsome) epitaph on the stone - "Here also lie the remains of Elizabeth Dickens,/ His wife,/ Who died September 12th 1863,/ Aged 73 years."