Category: Arts Quotes
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Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Read below some of the Quotes of Wassily Kandinsky. Color is a power which directly influences the soul. The artist must train not only his eye…
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso ( 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is known for co-founding the Cubist movement,…
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Bob Ross Quotes
Robert Norman “Bob” Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter and television host. With his calm, patient nature, Bob Ross came to prominence as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a long-running television program on public broadcast stations in the United States. Ross died of lymphoma at…
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Bob Marley Quotes
Robert Nesta Marley OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who achieved international fame through a series of crossover reggae albums. Starting out in 1963 with the group the Wailers, he forged a distinctive songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate with audiences worldwide. Bob Marley was a committed…
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Lord Byron Quotes
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron’s best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and the short lyric “She Walks in Beauty.”…
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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination”. Leonardo…
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Auguste Rodin Quotes
François-Auguste-René Rodin, known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. Born: November 12, 1840, Paris Died: November 17, 1917, Meudon Rodin’s The Thinker is among the most recognized works in all of sculpture. Work lovingly…
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Clara Schumann Quotes
Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. Born: September 13, 1819, Leipzig Died: May 20, 1896, Frankfurt Spouse: Robert Alexander Schumann There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. Every man has his faults; I…
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Keith Haring Quotes
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality and war. Haring’s work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of…
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Robert Doisneau Quotes
Robert Doisneau ( 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall), a photograph of…