D.H. Penner-Bodnar: "Portraits of Life": Charles LeBrun

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Sunday, 17 February 2013

I want to live here! ... or clear out all the people and leave me alone to peruse every nook and cranny, hidden hallway, winding staircase...

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.~ Aaron Copland
A picture is a poem without words ~ Horace
A picture paints a thousand words ~ Anon
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable ~ George Bernard Shaw
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures ~ Henry Ward Beecher
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls ~ Pablo Picasso
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision ~ James Whistler
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home ~ Twyla Tharp
The world is but a canvas to our imagination ~ Henry David Thoreau
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad ~ Salvador Dali
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do ~ Edgar Degas
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it ~ Paul Valery
Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment ~ Claude Monet
A man creates with his brains and not with his hands ~ Michelangelo
Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment – Claude Monet