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Category: Art

Posted on July 9, 2025

“The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts….”—Article I, Section 8, Clause 8; U.S. Constitution

Posted on August 17, 2023August 16, 2023

“Art is I, science is we.”—Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 1813-1878

Posted on May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

“My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”—Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, 1475-1564

Posted on May 3, 2023

“As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.”—Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853-1890

Posted on February 27, 2023February 26, 2023

“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on February 17, 2023

“Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on December 21, 2022December 20, 2022

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022

“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”—Oscar Levant, American comedian, 1906-1972

Posted on September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

“A good critic is one who describes his adventures among masterpieces.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on July 27, 2022July 26, 2022

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”—Philip Johnson, American architect, 1906-2005

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