Mariska Hargitay (1964- )

Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (/məˈrɪʃkə ˈhɑːrɡɪteɪ/; born January 23, 1964) is an American actress and producer.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Mariska Hargitay


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Hargitay in 2011 | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariska_Hargitay



Khachik Abrahamyan (1960- )

Khachik Abrahamyan

Khachik Abrahamyan (Armenian: Խաչիկ Աբրահամյան; born January 15, 1960, in Yerevan), is an Armenian artist.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Khachik Abrahamyan


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Khachik Abrahamyan, 22 March 2017 | Author: Armineaghayan | CC BY-SA 4.0    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachik_Abrahamyan



Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961- )

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian.[1]


Quotes·Quotations by Julia Louis-Dreyfus


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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Louis-Dreyfus



Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami,
Jerusalem Prize,
CC-BY-SA-4.0[2]

Haruki Murakami


Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Haruki Murakami


Voyager

¶ I’m the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she’s the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. [Kafka on the Shore]



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murakami_Haruki_(2009).jpg


Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.[1]



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Paintings


Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius, 1858, De Young Museum, San Francisco, California A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie, 1866, oil on canvas, h 210.8 x w 361.3 cm, Brooklyn Museum


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt



Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. [1]



Quotes·Quotations by Henri Matisse


Creativity


¶ "Creativity takes courage."

This quote is a reminder that creativity isn’t just about having great ideas—it’s also about having the courage to bring those ideas to life, despite the challenges and fears that might arise along the way.



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Henri Matisse


   
Matisse in 1913    

 


Works by Henri Matisse


   
Gustave Moreau's Studio, 1894-1895    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse



Margaret Cho (1968- )

Margaret Cho

Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, musician and activist.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by Margaret Cho


Beauty


¶ Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

This quote is a profound statement about perception and reality. It suggests that the existence of something doesn’t depend on whether or not it is perceived.



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Cho in 2011 | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0    

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho



William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.[1]



Quotes·Quotations by William-Adolphe Bouguereau


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Self-portrait (1879)    

 

Works


 
Nymphs and Satyr, 1873, oil on canvas, 260 × 180 cm (102.4 × 70.9 in), Clark Art Institute Virgin with Angels, 1881, oil on canvas, 213.4 x 152.4 cm, Forest Lawn Museum  

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau



Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".



Quotes·Quotations by Jonathan Swift


Money

¶ A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.



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Portrait by Charles Jervas, 1710    

 



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift



Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: /ˈmɒneɪ/, US: /moʊˈneɪ, məˈ-/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.[1]



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Works


Three Cows Grazing, 1868, pastel on paper[2] Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style and artistic movement. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris[3] Lavacourt under Snow (Coucher de soleil sur la neige à Lavacourt), 1881, oil on canvas, 59.7 x 80.6 cm, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin[4]

 


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Cows_Grazing_by_Claude_Monet.jpg

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet_-_Impression,_Sunrise.jpg

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet,_Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow.jpg