About Art: From an Artist

"The Joy of Life" 1905 by Henri Matisse

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

- Henri Matisse

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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

British politician, poet and critic

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"Violin and Candlestick" by Georges Braque

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

- Georges Braque

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“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.”

Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

                                                        -Albert Einstein

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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius (BC 551-BC 479) 

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

- Oscar Wilde

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"Black Square" Kazimir Malevich. 1923

 “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.

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"Day of the Gods" 1894. by Gauguin

“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
Paul Gauguin