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Graham Dane

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Graham Dane

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“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.” - Paul Klee “A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the mo

“Sometimes I don’t know exactly what I want [with a painting]. I check it out, recheck it for days or weeks. Sometimes there is more to do on it. Sometimes I am afraid of ruining what I have. Sometimes I am lazy, I don’t finish it or I don’t push it

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"Good judgement is through good drawing - from the nervous system to the sensory of the brain it is the combination of eurythmics, euphony and poetry, and when the good draughtsman draws, the muses come to dance. Then the imagination is given full p

"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true." - Gustav Klimt

"The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant." - Jakob Boehme.

The lion man of Hohlenstein Stadel, c.28,000 BCE

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“I think of my pictures as dramas; the shapes in the pictures are the performers. They have been created from the need for a group of actors who are able to move dramatically without embarrassment and execute gestures without shame.” - Mark Rothko

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself." - Howard Hodgkin

Chaos Theory - the Lorenz Attractor

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled o

Image of subatomic particles colliding in a particle accelerator