Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Life is Short
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(Choose any quotation you like to express your feelings about art. Make it your slogan for this unit)
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher“
"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock
market or the debates in congress."
Hedrick Willem Van Loon, The Arts
“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the
pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. “
Henri Matisse
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands”.
Michelangelo
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
John Ruskin
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than
Art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Living, 1891
GLOSSARY
progress
learning My
My objectives
and
I have put into my
I can Dossier I should
I know
- speak about - read more;
meaning of ____words; - have more
painting; my description of a speaking practice;
- describe the ____phrases; painting. - learn more words
painting, - more about It’s_______________ and phrases;
according to a English __________________ - improve my
plan; painters; __________________ grammar;
- make a - how to __________________ - improve my
presentation; make a __________________ pronunciation;
- express my virtual trip __________________ - visit any gallery
preferences in to a __________________ to see a real
painting museum painting