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TIME’s Best Portraits of 2011 - Patti Smith, musician and poet
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"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. " Frida Kahlo
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Henri Matisse Drawing Sketches for the Murals of the Chapelle des Dominicains, France, 1950 / Photography by Robert Capa (1913-1954)
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
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"The roles of artist and muse are interchangeable, resulting in work elevated above any conventional concept of love and gender." - Patti Smith
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"Oh, they all look alike to me. Noses to the grindstone, shoulders to the wheel, feet planted firmly on the ground. No wonder they can't fly." - Endora on mortals
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"Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone." Henri Matisse
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration." Frida Kahlo
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“Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of [God's] creatures are funny-looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn’t let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures” Julia Cameron
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Claude Monet, who inspires me to garden as well as paint.
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"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." Katharine Hepburn
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