"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

~ George Edward Moore

Karl Bryullov (12 December 1799 - 11 June 1852) was a great Russian painter, portraitist, genrist. He is regarded as a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism.

Bakhchisaray Fountain, 1849

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"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty."

~ Jacqueline Bisset

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"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

~ Pablo Picasso

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

~ Oscar Wilde

"Shishkin is a national artist. All his life he studied Russia, mainly the northern woods, Russian trees and Russian thickets. It is his empire, and here he has no contenders, he is unique."

~ Stasov

Morning in a Pine Forest - Wikipedia

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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen"

~ Leonardo da Vinci

A Flower Garden

"Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,

Which, to admire, we should not understand."

~ William Congreve

"Women are always beautiful."

~ Ville Valo