Cities and Arts

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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." - Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS, 1506-8 National Gallery of Art London, UK

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"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas." - Charles Dudley Warner

Johannes Vermeer THE GLASS OF WINE, 1662 Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Germany

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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts." - Joshua Reynolds

Edvard Munch GIRLS ON THE BRIDGE, 1902 KODE Bergen, Norway

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"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." - Eugene Ionesco

Paul Klee HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS, 1929 Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany

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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau

Amedeo Modigliani PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires, Argentina

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"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity." - James Huneker

Claude Monet LA JAPONAISE, 1876 Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, USA

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"I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it." - Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh NOON REST FROM WORK, 1890 Musée d'Orsay Paris, France

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"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul." -  Henri Matisse

Georges Seurat MAN PAINTING A BOAT, 1883 The Courtauld Gallery London, UK

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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." - Charles Horton Cooley

Pierre-Auguste Renoir LITTLE GIRL WITH A HAT, 1894 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, USA

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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Sandro Botticelli PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, 1480-5 National Gallery London, UK

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"Art is made by the alone for the alone." - Luis Barragán

Rembrandt van Rijn PORTRAIT OF A BOY, 1655-60 Norton Simon Museum Pasadena, USA

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“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

Leonardo da Vinci MADONNA LITTA, 1490 Hermitage St Petersburg, Russia

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"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." - John Updike

Johannes Vermeer A MAID ASLEEP, 1656-57 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, USA

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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.” - Alphonse de Lamartine

Edvard Munch MORNING, 1884 KODE Bergen, Norway

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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." - Stella Adler

Paul Klee TREE NURSERY, 1929 The Phillips Collection Washington, USA

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"Rules and models destroy genius and art." - William Hazlitt

Amedeo Modigliani BEATRICE HASTINGS, 1916 The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia, USA

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“Art is not a thing; it is a way. ” - Elbert Hubbard

Claude Monet THE SHELTERED PATH, 1873 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, USA