A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Posted on May 13, 2013

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites”

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~Marc Chagall

Posted on May 10, 2013 via 100 Artists of the Male Figure with 28 notes

“The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees … The more he looks at it, there’s nothing there. He fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isn’t anything there.” - John Hughes

Posted on April 11, 2013 via fire walk with me with 92,919 notes

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Story time for all (specially commission-) artists!

Polyclitus was one of Greece’s most famous sculptors. According to an often repeated tale he once made two statues at the same time. One was made according to his principles of art and another he modified according to the wishes of people who observed it. When the two were finally unveiled everyone marveled at one of the statues and laughed at the other. Thereupon Polyclitus said: “But the one of which you find fault with, you made yourselves; while he one you marvel at, I made.”

Posted on April 9, 2013