Art

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“no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and of the study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing.”

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse), 1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas

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Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.

— Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

— Marina Abramovic

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BBC Fine Art Collection  – Mad About Monet
 

     
   
 

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The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is.

— Marina Abramovic

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“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”

Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962

Ad Reinhardt’s work became increasingly reductive and symmetrical in the
1950’s and from 1955 until his death he worked almost exclusively in
near-black. In fact the blue-black surface of ‘Abstract Painting
No. 5’ has an underlying grid of different coloured squares divided by a
green central horizontal band. Seen from top left, the squares are:
red, blue, red, red, blue, red. Each of these colours was mixed with
black oil paint to give a matt surface quality.
               

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I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

— Jimi Hendrix

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by Dmitry Maximov

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The Power Of Art: Van Gogh

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