Art History

"I saw the angel in the marble
 and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo Buonarroti

 

"How do you know when you have finished a painting? 'How do you know when
you have finished making love?' "
Jackson Pollock 

"It is your work in life that is the
ultimate seduction."
Pablo Picasso

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Here lies Raffaello who, when alive, Nature was afraid to be won by him,
when he died, she wanted to die herself."
 Pietro Bembo
Raffaello (Raphael) Sanzio

"...Displaying the artist's perfect mastery
of his profession." Giorgio Vasari
 Sandro Botticelli

"It is true that in the few pictures he painted, one can find the entire scale of colours; but the use of lemon yellow, pale blue and light grey together is as characteristic of him as the harmony of black, white, grey and pink is of Velazquez." Vincent van Gogh
Johannes Vermeer
 

"Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force."
Vincent van Gogh