
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
Source: Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
Seeing
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
Source: Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
quoted by Monet, in his letter to Boudin, 1859; as quoted in Discovering Art, – The life time and work of the World's greatest Artists, MONET; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 11
Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon, who was a good friend of his first art-teacher Eugène Boudin in Le Havre
in a letter to , 1859; as quoted in Discovering Art, – The life time and work of the World's greatest Artists, MONET; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 11
1850 - 1870
version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): ..Als ik eenige teekeningen gemaakt heb zie ik ze ook direct in kleuren [en] vergroot voor me..
In a letter (nr. 356) to Bastiaan Kist, 9 Sept. 1943; as cited in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 176
1940's
13 January 1857 (p. 334)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Quote from History of Impressionism, Rev. ed. John Rewald, Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 89
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)
1860s, A Liberal Education and Where to Find It (1868)
Hans Arp's quote on drawing on the black surface; as quoted in Search for the Real, Hans Hofmann, Addison Gallery of modern Art, 1948
1940s