Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton

A picture is worth a thousand words. Napoleon Bonaparte

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana

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Happy birthday to Gustave Courbet! A French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century.

Happy birthday to Sir Peter Paul Rubens! A Flemish artist, he is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition.

Gustav Klimt (born July 14, 1862) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

Rembrandt (b. July 15, 1606) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, & printmaker. He is considered one of the greatest visual artists in history.

Edgar Degas (born July 19, 1834) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.