Art
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Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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“the artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him.”
New Moon above the Riesengebirge Mountains (1810 or 1828/1835) by Caspar David Friedrich
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“The point is that one sees things at different moments with different
eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which
one sees also depends on one’s mood.. ..coming in from a dark bedroom in
the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything
in a bluish light. Even the deepest shadows are topped with bright
light. After a while one will accustom oneself to the light and the
shadows will be deeper and everything will be seen more sharply. If an
atmosphere of this kind is being painted it won’t do merely to sit and
gaze at everything ‘just as one sees’. One must paint precisely the
fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience
separating that significant moment from the next – the exact moment when
the motif struck one.. .In some circumstances a chair may seem to be
just as interesting as a human being. In some way or another it must
have caught the interest in which case the onlooker’s interest must
somehow be engaged in the same way. It’s not the chair that should be
painted, but what the person has felt at the sight of it [written in
Saint Cloud, 1890 – probably related to the chair of Vincent van Gogh”
The Scream – Munch Edvard
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“A person with normal
eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of ‘Impressionism’ unless
he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.”
Simplon Pass: Reading (1911) by John Singer Sargent
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Dream of Painting
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“But I got into music, because I naively thought that pop music was basically the only viable art form left, because the art world is run by a few very extremely, um, privileged people and is ultimately corrupt and barren of any context. And I thought that the pop music industry was different and I was fucking wrong, because I went to the Brits and I saw it everywhere and it’s the same thing. It’s a lot of women who couldn’t fit in their cocktail dresses and lots of men in black ties who essentially didn’t want to be there, but were. And I was there and we were all committing the same offence. All my favorite artists are people who never seem to be involved in the industry and I found myself getting involved in it, and I felt really ashamed to be there.
I don’t think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that’s been thrown at them.” – Thom Yorke – Interview
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The Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet
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The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
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The Power of Art – Mark Rothko
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“I am not an abstractionist.. .I am not interested in the relationships
of color or form or anything else.. .I’m interested only in expressing
basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact
that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures
show that I communicate those basic human emotions.. .The people
who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I
had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their
color relationships, then you miss the point!”— Mark Rothko
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Lesbia (1878) by John Reinhard Weguelin