_Arts

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history. - André Malraux (1901-1976)

Flaming June, by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896) Artist Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) Title English: Flaming June. Español: Junio flameante. Français : June flamboyante. Italiano: Avvampante giugno. 日本語: フレイミング・ジューン. Português: Sol ardente de junho Slovenčina: Žeravý jún. Date ~1895 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 120.6 × 120.6 cm (47 3/8 × 47 3/8 in) Current location Museum of Art of Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico Source/Photographer Artrenewal.org : notice : image Licensing This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard (1937- )

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss ? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... - Dawn French (1957- )

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. - George Santayana (1863-1952)

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. - Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

A beauty Description English: A beauty oil on canvas 41.2 x 20.6 cm signed b.r.: Falero 1885 Date 1885 Source The Athenaeum Wikimedia Commons Author Luis Ricardo Falero (1851–1896) Camera location . Permission Public Domain Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Description English: Frederick Dielman (1847-1935) designed this mosaic representing Law for the United States Library of Congress, and it was subsequently manufactured in Venice, Italy. A young woman on a marble throne holds a sword in one hand to chastise the guilty and a palm branch in the other hand to reward the meritorious. A glory surrounds her head, and on her breast is the aegis of Minerva, signifying she is clad in the armor of righteousness and wisdom. Other portions of this large mosaic are omitted from this image. This mosaic indicates not only the judicial but the legislative side of law; typical symbols of justice are less conspicuous or omitted, and the woman has a freer air of command. Date 1896 Source http://www.loc.gov/jefftour/cm/cm-mos-n.html Author Frederick Dielman http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:A_mosaic_LAW_by_Frederick_Dielman,_1847-1935.JPG

Author: François Lemoyne (1688–1737) Description English: Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy Date: 1737 Notes: completed on the day before the artist’s suicide Source/Photographer: Wallace Collection, London; HumanitiesWeb.org http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Time_Saving_Truth_from_Falsehood_and_Envy.jpg

Diana at her bath (Alexandre Jacques Chantron) Artist Alexandre Jacques Chantron (1842–1918) Title English: Diana at her Bath Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 75 × 44.75 in (190.5 × 113.7 cm) Inscriptions Signature bottom right: Chantron Source/Photographer [1] Licensing The author died in 1918, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less. Wikimedia Commons

Girls In A Green Rowing Boat Author Harald Slott-Møller (1864–1937) Title . Description English: Girls In A Green Rowing Boat On A Summer Day Date c. 1910 Medium . Current location . Source/Photographer Pimbrils Licensing This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/