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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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2020-07-29

Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894

Eyeless in Gaza
The Doors of Perception
The Perennial Philosophy
Point Counter Point

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2020-07-26

“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together"

Art Nouveau midwife & figurehead Alphonse Mucha 1860 in Ivančice, Moravia.

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2020-07-24


"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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to in in 1862.
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Image: detail from book cover, Klimt, 1907, Galerie Würthle, Vienna.

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2020-07-14


"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

Franciszek Starowieyski—enfant terrible of the Polish poster school, named his son "Beelzebub," the first Polish artist to have a one-man show at —#BOTD in 1930

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2020-07-09

Vittorio De Sica
TWO WOMEN / La ciociara (1960)

Cesira combs Rosetta’s First, she fixes the little girl's braids. Later in a Cesira says, “I think you’re old enough for a new Still later, after the attack, she can’t comb it at all.

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2020-07-07

"Within this body is imprisoned a soul like a half-starved tiger in an iron cage, bellowing out its dreadful passions. All men seem mean and petty to me, ingloriously lewd, travelling salesmen with their second-rate eroticism!”

Belgian Symbolist artist Félicien Rops 1833

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2020-07-07

Félicien Rops (#BOTD 1833-1898), pintor belga

Íncubo, Baudelaire

...
Cuando llegue la mañana lívida,
Encontrarás mi lugar vacío,
Donde hasta el crepúsculo parecerá frío.

Como otros para la ternura,
Sobre tu vida y sobre tu juventud,
Yo solo quiero reinar por el terror.

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2020-07-07

🎂
My art homage Frida Kahlo
My artist woman inspiration, as an artist 🎨✨ ❤️
“ She painted beauty from her pain. Three embryos in color as her palette, of children longed for, she birthed art from. Her paint brushes adorn her head as a crown 👑

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2020-07-06

🎼 Bernard Herrmann in 1911

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2020-06-29

Iconic American graphic designer Milton Glaser, born on this day in The Bronx, NY in 1929. His designs characterized and influenced much poster art in the late 60s and include the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster, and logos for DC Comics and Brooklyn Brewery.

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2020-06-26


Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. 📚 🎨

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2020-06-27

Graphic designer/artist

"There is a fundamental conflict between selling things and making things..."

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2020-06-26