ART QUOTES: What is an Artist? | THE REMODERN REVIEW

Romare Bearden “Dream of Exile”

If you’re any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you…

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ARTISTS: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in Arizona | THE REMODERN REVIEW

Max Ernst “The Entire City”

“Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.”

– Max Ernst

In the late 1930s and early 1940s there was a mass exodus of artists out of Europe, fleeing expanding Nazi power. Many came to America and settled in New York City, and went no further. They kept aloof from the local art scene and showed little interest in learning anything about their host country.

Surrealism was the dominant movement at the time, and most…

Source: ARTISTS: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in Arizona | THE REMODERN REVIEW

First Night Design | “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was…”

Alice in Wonderland Pillow

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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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Alice in Wonderland Pillows

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“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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First Night Design | Something Simple This Way Comes

Time for Tea #8 Teacup Pillows

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
“Is there any tea on this spaceship?” he asked.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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“Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?”
― Neil Gaiman

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Available at the following galleries:
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK

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First Night Design | Handwritten Love

Love Letters © First Night Design

An image to brighten your week as I recently sold this at Redbubble! I must do some more pieces using this gorgeous hand-painted fan, which I inherited from my grandmother. Remind me, would you?!

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“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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Also available at Fine Art America.

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First Night Design | Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887 – 1985)

Marc Chagall’s painting of his parents [Wikipedia]

The Belarussian-Russian-French artist Marc Chagall died on this day in 1985.

Marc Chagall in Paris, 1921 [Wikipedia]

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”  Good Reads

“What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn’t paint.” Good Reads

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