“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” -George Bernard Shaw

Joined January 2021
“Learn to admire the others; it is the first step to overcome your ego...” ― Ehsan Sehgal   Charles Wynne Nicholls(1831-1903),Irish painter The Admirers   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories...” -Zadie Smith, White Teeth   Alex May(1972-),British artist Shadows of Light,2011   #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time…” -Alessandro Manzoni   Giuseppe de Nittis(1846-1884),Italian painter La Grenouillère   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“Ceux qui se taisent, les seuls dont la parole compte…” -Charles Péguy   Florence Dussuyer(1978-),French artist Les échappées silenciesses   #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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”Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude…” -Jonathan Franzen   Eduard Cucuel(1875-1954),American painter Under the Gold Rain,1920   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses...” ― John Irving/The Cider House Rules   Parker Pfister(1968-),American photographer Isle of Skye,Scotland,2024   #photography #photo #blackandwhite
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“Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time…” -Kelsey Grammer Harold Knight(1874-1961),English painter At the Piano   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork
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“What is paradise, but,a garden,an orchard of trees,flowers and herbs,full of pleasure and nothing there but delights…” -William Lawson   𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘰 (1960-),Japanese artist Of Flowers and Herbs:Crimson in the Moonlight    #painting  #ArteYArt #contemporaryart
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“Plus étroits que ceux du sang et de la famille sont les liens de l'amitié…” -Jean Boccace   Blanche Camus (1881-1968),French painter Trois amies    #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled,the waves ordered calm,and the course set undeterred...” -Craig D. Lounsbrough   Bo Bartlett(1955-),American artist The Flood    #painting  #ArteYArt #contemporaryart
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“And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me,I'll watch the play of the colors on the water,yield to the fleetly dissolving images,and turn into pure feeling,all soft and nice…” -Gunter Grass   Eugen Johann Georg Klimsch(1839-1896),German painter The Picnic #painting
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“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence…” -Samuel Johnson   Chris Killip(1946-2020),British photographer Gordon in the water,Seacoal Beach,Lynemouth,UK,1983   #photography #photo #blackandwhite #contemporaryart #foto #fotografia #art
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“I don't know the world, I don't even know myself. I'm forever daydreaming and often can't tell dreams from reality...” ― Vítězslav Nezval,Czech poet,writer   Kinuko Y. Craft(1940-),Japanese-born American painter Daydreaming   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art
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“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless…” -Milan Kundera   Karin Jurick(1961-1921),American artist Ageless    #painting  #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art
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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home…” -Gary Snyder   Edouard Niczky(1850-1919),German painter Evening Celebration   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“There is no beauty without some strangeness…” -Edgar Allan Poe   Janet Hill,Canadian artist Gothic Story    #painting  #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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Alle wahrhaft großen Gedanken kommen einem beim Gehen!“ (All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking) -Friedrich Nietzsche   Silvestro Lega(1826-1895).Italian painter A Walk   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you…” -Thomas Pynchon   Drew Doggett(1984-),American photographer Ocean Escape   #photography #photo #blackandwhite #contemporaryart #foto #fotografia #art
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“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create…” -Anthony Burgess   Stanley Royle (1888–1961),British painter The Goose Girl   #painting #pittura #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window...” -Dejan Stojanovic/The Sun Watches the Sun   Evgeni Gordiats(1951-),Ukrainian-American painter Path to Town    #painting  #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art #arte #Kunst #artwork #artlovers
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