artist
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“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love.”
Francis Bacon
Study After Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
1953
Oil on canvas
60 × 46 in
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Detail of The Life of Saint Dymphna (1505) by Goswin van der Weyden
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Why people fall for bullshit, according to a scientist
“The difference between bullshit and lying is that bullshit is constructed without any concern for the truth. It’s designed to impress rather than inform. And then lying, of course, is very concerned with the truth — but subverting it.”
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“Art is the lie that tells the truth.”
Pablo Picasso
Nature morte à la fenêtre
1932
oil on canvas
51 x 63 7/8 in.
Price realised
USD 41,810,000
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Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses (detail)
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“The difference between an artist who finds sales and someone like Vincent van Gogh, who never did, is that van Gogh quietly changed the world—while others simply passed through it.”
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“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”
— Freddie Mercury
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Simon Sinek: Start With Why
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Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss
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“The world is vast, but the frog in the well thinks it knows everything.”
— Japanese Proverb
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“The art world is the biggest scam going. It’s a massive, money-laundering operation for the rich.”
— Banksy
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“They’ll hang your work in gold frames, not because it speaks truth, but because it looks good above the fireplace.”
— Anonymous