Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
– Cao Yu, Chinese dramatist (1910-1996)
Anonymous girls in paintings
photo by P H Morton
I love these matching paintings that Peter gifted me in 2012. They are so lovely. I must admit I am tempted to add features to their faces but Peter won’t let me. He has not forgiven me for desecrating a painting that was worth £5000. Well it was so faint. I just added a few outline to the painting. I thought it was prettier now that I could see clearly its outline. LOL
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What is ART?!!!
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
—Hazlitt.
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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
—Jean Paul Richter
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Art is the daughter of freedom
– Friedrich Schiller
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Art does not imitate, but interpret.
– Mazzini
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto his glory.
—Longfellow
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
Goethe
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
—Quintilian.
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- Isis & Osiris
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- Statue of Dante at the Uffizi, Florence
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- Spiral at Fortnum & Mason, Photo by PH Morton
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- V&A Photo by PH Morton
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- George W Bush, Self-portrait
