Quote of the Day

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin


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“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” - Alberto Giacometti
"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” - Edgar Degas
"I paint what I see and not what others like to see.” - Édouard Manet
"My goal was never to copy, but to create a new style, bright, luminous colors and to scent out elegance in my models.” - Tamara de Lempicka