The Inspirational Sketchbook by Firehouse Publications

The Inspirational Sketchbook 100 Art Quotes To Illustrate & Educate By Eric Gibbons & Dongkui Lin ISBN-13: 978-1530871162 ISBN-10: 1530871166 Published by Firehouse Publications: www.FirehousePublications.com Printed by Createspace

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Art mixes with literature as we create illustrations for famous quotes on art by some of the most names throughout history like Einstein, Picasso, O'Keeffe, and Queen Victoria to name but a few. Read, interpret, and learn: a deeply interdisciplinary approach and supplement to an art education program, English class, or for personal growth and enrichment. A short blurb about the author of each quote appears on the back of each page with space to write an interpretation on what the author meant. There is also space for readers and students to explore more about the author of each quote. This combination of art, history, literature, writing, interpretation, and illustration becomes a powerful educational tool attaining the highest levels of learning on Bloom’s Taxonomy: analyze, evaluate, and create. We suggest many uses for this book:  Sketch and draw right on the quoted pages  Cut the spine and make copies for sub plans  Use copies for sketches to be turned into final works of art  Create a personal sketchbook based on these quotes The facing page includes a simple example of how a quote can be incorporated into an illustration. We have added a coffee stain and turned it into a moon to help explain "happy little accidents." The author, Eric Gibbons, was awarded New Jersey's Best High School Teacher award by the AENJ in 2015. The materials contained here are ones he has used in his classroom since 1990, and have been fully tested in a real environment with grades 4 through 12. Gibbons' students outscore their non-art peers by a wide margin due to his intercurricular approach featured in this book and many of his other publications found at: FirehousePublications.com or on his blog at ArtEdGuru.com.

~Frida Kahlo

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” ~Frida Kahlo What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Frida Kahlo de Rivera, July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954, was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Mexican culture and tradition are important in her work, which has been sometimes characterized as naïve art or folk art. Her work has also been described as surrealist. She was married to the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems, isolated her from other people, and this isolation influenced her works, many of which are self-portraits. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish." ~Aristotle

"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish." ~Aristotle What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Aristotle; 384â&#x20AC;&#x201C;322 BC, was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child,. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.â&#x20AC;? ~Berthe Morisot

“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.” ~Berthe Morisot What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot, January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895, was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by Academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris. In 1874, she joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.â&#x20AC;? ~Yoko Ono

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.â&#x20AC;? ~Yoko Ono What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Yoko Ono, born 18 February 1933, is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art, music and filmmaking. She is the widow of singer-songwriter John Lennon. Ono grew up in Tokyo, and traveled the world. She first met Lennon in 1966 at her own art exhibition in London, and they became a couple in 1968. Ono and Lennon famously used their relationship as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War. She brought feminism to the forefront in her music, influencing artists as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith Monk. Ono achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the charttopping album Double Fantasy with Lennon released three weeks before his death. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

~Confucius

“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.” ~Confucius What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Confucius, which means “Master Kong,” September 28, 551 – 479 BC was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, writer, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools. Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism. He taught strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives. He taught the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", known today as the Golden Rule. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

“Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small it takes time—we haven't time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe

“Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small it takes time—we haven't time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986, was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism". In 1977, President Gerald R. Ford presented O'Keeffe with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded to American civilians. In 1985, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.â&#x20AC;? ~Keith Haring

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.” ~Keith Haring What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Keith Allen Haring, May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990, was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, relationships, and war. Haring's work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century. He was often arrested for creating works in the New York subways, but little by little came to the attention of mainstream galleries and becoming internationally famous. He opened the “POP Shop” in New York to sell his artwork and souvenirs.

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~Henri Matisse

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” ~Henri Matisse What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954 was a French artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original drawings. He was painter, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the arts. His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of source of their wonders.â&#x20AC;? ~Francisco de Goya

“Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of source of their wonders.” ~Francisco de Goya What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828, was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

“Imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein

“Imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Albert Einstein, 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955, was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics . Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc 2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation." He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.â&#x20AC;? ~Auguste Rodin

“What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.” ~Auguste Rodin What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ François Auguste René Rodin, 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917, known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's most famous school of art. His original studio and home can be seen in Paris France, along with many of his original sculptures, some never brought to full completion. His most famous work is called The Thinker, a seated figure with his fist under his chin.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.â&#x20AC;? ~Frank Lloyd Wright

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Frank Lloyd Wright, born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959, was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by a home he designed called Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” ~Louise Bourgeois

“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” ~Louise Bourgeois What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010, was a FrenchAmerican artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, relationships, the body, as well as death. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement. She is well known for her giant sculptures of spiders. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.â&#x20AC;? ~Wayne Thiebaud

“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.” ~Wayne Thiebaud What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Wayne Thiebaud, born November 15, 1920, is an American painter widely known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy paint and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.â&#x20AC;? ~Salvador Dali

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~Salvador Dali What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, 11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989, known by his shorter name Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media, even Walt Disney.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.â&#x20AC;? ~Wu Guanzhong

“Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.” ~Wu Guanzhong What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Wu Guanzhong, August 29, 1919 – June 25, 2010, was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu had painted various aspects of China, including much of its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

“Art is a line around your thoughts.” ~Gustav Klimt

“Art is a line around your thoughts.” ~Gustav Klimt What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Gustav Klimt, July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918, was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects of art. Klimt's primary subject was the female figure. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. One of his paintings became the subject for a movie called Woman in Gold.

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” ~Winston Churchill

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” ~Winston Churchill What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965, was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.â&#x20AC;? ~Dorothea Lange

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.” ~Dorothea Lange What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Dorothea Lange, May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965, was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. Many believe her important and influential images crossed over from simply documentary into fine art photography.

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” ~Edgar Degas

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” ~Edgar Degas What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917, was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his renditions of dancers, and racecourse subjects. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation.

“There are three classes of people. Those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci

“There are three classes of people. Those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci, 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank. His most famous work is the Mona Lisa.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.â&#x20AC;? ~Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~Pablo Picasso What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973, was known as Pablo Picasso a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the Cubist paintings Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937).

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” ~ George B. Shaw

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” ~ George B. Shaw What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ George Bernard Shaw, 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950, was an Irish playwright, critic and critic whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.â&#x20AC;? ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

“Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.” ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ The Goncourt brothers: Edmond de Goncourt, 1822–96 and Jules de Goncourt,1830– 70, both French naturalism writers who as collaborative sibling authors, were inseparable in life. They formed a partnership that "is possibly unique in literary history. Not only did they write all their books together, they did not spend more than a day apart in their adult lives, until they were finally parted by Jules's death in 1870." They are known for their literary work and for their diaries, which offer a view into the French literary society of the late 1800s. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

“CreAte like A gOd, command like a king, wOrk like A slAve.” ~Constantin Brancusi

“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” ~Constantin Brancusi What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Constantin Brâncuși, February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957, was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Artsin Paris. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The process of painting is my knife!â&#x20AC;? ~Caravaggio

“The process of painting is my knife!” ~Caravaggio What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610, was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting. His unstable mood was as famous as his work in his time. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” ~Twyla Tharp

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.â&#x20AC;? ~Twyla Tharp What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Twyla Tharp, born July 1, 1941, is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966, she formed her own company Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often utilizes classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music. From 1971 to 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance toured extensively around the world, performing original works. In 1973, Tharp choreographed Deuce Coupe to the music of The Beach Boys for the Joffrey Ballet. Deuce Coupe is considered to be the first crossover ballet. Later she choreographed Push Comes to Shove, which featured Mikhail Baryshnikov and is now thought to be the best example of the crossover ballet. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

“Beware of artists–they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.” ~Queen Victoria

“Beware of artists–they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.” ~Queen Victoria What does the quote mean to you? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Queen Victoria, 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901, was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she had the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-CoburgSaalfeld. She inherited the throne aged 18. Victoria became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Can you find 5 more interesting facts about the author of the quote? 1.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

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