museoleum

Quiet, Reposed: You have an interesting face. I would like to do your portrait. I have a feeling we will do great things together.

fetishofsilence:

—Pablo Picasso to muse Marie-Thérèse

In 1927, on a street in Paris, Picasso encountered the unassuming girl, just shy of eighteen years old, who would become his lover and one of modern art’s most famous muses. “I am Picasso” he announced. The name meant nothing to Marie-Thérèse so he…

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"What a long Calvary an artist’s life is! And that’s perhaps what makes us go on living. Passion gives life, and we die when it’s no longer nourishing. Let’s abandon these paths lined with thorny bushes, although they have their savage poetry…"

Letter from Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh (Brittany, 7 - 9 September 1888)

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Nicole Bennett’s invitation is awaiting your response

Nicole Bennett would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond?

Nicole Bennett
Director at Rosenbaum Contemporary
West Palm Beach, Florida Area

This is a reminder that on 5/10/13 7:54 PM, Nicole Bennett sent you an invitation to become part of their professional network at LinkedIn. Reminder emails for pending invitations.

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never-yawn:

*I’m not even sure I miss you that much.

"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."

Eugene Delacroix

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"I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: ‘He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty."

Gustave Courbet

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