Quote of the Day

"Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want." - Gustav Klimt
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"Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want." - Gustav Klimt
“It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create."
- J. M. W. Turner
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons." - Al Hirschfeld
In 1565, the first pencil was invented in England.
"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life." - John Lubbock