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"#Paintings are not always pleasant or easy. I don't always like it and really when I do them it's a journey."

Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) in

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2020-09-07

"I lived inside the pictures and from the inside of them looked out upon a world less real than they." ~ Edward Burne-Jones

🎨 Edward Burne-Jones, "The Wheel of Fortune", 1883

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2020-08-29


"I decided to turn regular folk into kings and queens. It seemed to be the only way to allow them to be represented and appreciated for who they were intrinsically."

Tamara Natalie Madden (1975–2017) in

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2020-08-17


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

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2020-08-01


"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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2020-07-29


"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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2020-07-29


"The admonition to look within has always kept me going. It's when people are always copying each other that they don't establish their own as

Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) in

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2020-07-23


"Many women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, so wanting to be an was only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon."

Judy Chicago

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2020-07-21


"I want to have an effect on my time, in which humans are so confused & in need of help."

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) in what is now

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2020-07-09


"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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2020-06-23

"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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2020-05-26