Art on the Daily

side project inspired by the artist’s way / a steady stream of art & quotes

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AΛΣ · IXH · XAN

-his motto and a pun for his name
-in Dutch means “as I can” or “as best I can” as in “as best I can, not as I would”
- presumably meant to imply the artist’s modest appreciation of his own work

- Jan van Eyck

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@LallyMacBeth I wish there was a digital copy of her poems and books available!

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Everything happens in accordance with a specific system of law, which I feel within me, and which never allows me to rest.

— Emma Kunz

#art #emmakunz #sacredgeometry

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My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

— Takashi Murakami

@takashipom #art #aesthetic #manga #anime

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In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.

- Ernesto Neto

#art #life #courage #dragons #ernestoneto

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As an artist,I explore ideas about water in my installations.I search for the meaning of this medium, and use its language in articulating my ideas on the functions and dysfunctions of human connections to one another and the surrounding Earth.

-Bright Ugochukwu Eke

#water #art

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True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories.

- Carl Jung

#art #creation #jung

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It was like seeing behind the curtain, and then I found something that allowed me to see things from the other side—like seeing a whole new world.

- Damián Ortega
#art #seeing #newworld

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Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being. Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter.

—Jean Delville

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Image is sacred and magical, and cannot be destroyed

- Pavel Tchelitchew

#art #image #sacred

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The most fundamental reason one paints is in order to see.

- Brett Whiteley

#art #see #paint #vision #ArtistOnTwitter

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@akianeart Happy Birthday, Akiane!

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I don't wait for inspiration. Inspiration waits for me.

-Akiane Kramarik

#art #artquotes #akiane #inspiration @akianeart

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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

- Auguste Rodin

#art #spark #fire

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ARS USU IVVANDA

Art is improved by practice

Lodewijck Grouwels - Double Virginal Harpsichord, 1600

#art #practice @metmuseum 🎹🎨

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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

- Yves Tanguy

#art #surrealism #aloneinmywork

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Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

- Max Ernst

#art #creativity #spark

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Max Ernst - Enter, Exit, 1923

#enter #exit #surrealism #ernst

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I want to reduce everything to the absolute.

- Jacques Villon

#art #absolute