The Antelucan Hourglass

An INTP Aquarian born in the last few days of a Rooster / 鸡 year.

I AM AN ENTHUSIAST.

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Primarily an art blog, but also including posts on history, travel, food, botanicals, architecture, literature, music...

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I never met a color I didn't like. - Dale Chihuly

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

I paint with shapes. - Alexander Calder

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. - Marc Chagall

Color is a power which directly influences the soul. - Wassily Kandinsky

I have always wanted my colors to sing. - Paul Delvaux

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. - Paul Klee

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. - Pablo Picasso

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. - Marcel Duchamp

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll

Intellect confuses intuition. - Piet Mondrian

kiishimu:

Ma Yuan (ca. 1160-1225), Facing the Moon.

This landscape painter is about half a century older than Cimabue and his work reminds me a lot of Pisanello (ca. 1395-1455). Maybe we should reconsider the importance of “our” Renaissance.