Georges Badin and Michel Butor, The Catalonian Garden, 2000
Georges Badin and Michel Butor, The Catalonian Garden, 2000 Georges Badin and Michel Butor, The Catalonian Garden, 2000 The world is a book whose every step opens a page. -Alphonse de Lamartine This voice you have at your side without interrupting it, as if carrying effluvia that do not join, and every glance becomes a […]
Georges Badin, Fields of mimosa
Georges Badin, Fields of mimosa Georges Badin, Fields of mimosa Look carefully because what you are about to see is not what you have just seen. Painting is a poetry that is seen instead of felt and poetry is a painting that is felt instead of seen. The sun never sees the shadow. The nobility […]
Claude Monet, The Water Lilies, 1895-1927
Claude Monet, The Water Lilies, 1895-1927 Claude Monet, The Water Lilies, 1895-1927 By raising your soul above the vulgar life, you will find joys that few […] know. You will have the second sight, that of inspiration. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux,, 1827-1875 It was there, in Paris, between four walls that I washed my eyes, that I […]
Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888
Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888 Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888 The novelty in painting does not consist in a subject not yet seen, but in the right and new disposition and expression, and so from common and old, the subject becomes singular and new. The colours in painting are lures that persuade the eyes, like […]
Georges Badin, Selection Cronwell
Georges Badin, Selection Cronwell Georges Badin, Selection Cronwell I understood that, even if you are poor and needy in the eyes of the world, you can be enriched in God and that no one can take this treasure away from you. I wish we had as little trouble with colour as we do with pen […]
Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904
Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904 Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904 The design includes everything except the colour. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867 Do not be put off if some people find no resemblance to your portraits; there are many people who cannot see. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842 You don’t just have to look at the […]
Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm (c 1651), oil on canvas, 97 x 131 cm, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
GEORGES BADIN AND MICHEL BUTOR, THE CATALONIAN GARDEN, 2000 Georges Badin and Michel Butor, The Catalonian Garden, 2000 The world is a book whose every step opens a page. -Alphonse de Lamartine This voice you have at your side without interrupting it, as if carrying effluvia that do not join, and every glance becomes a […]