'Robert Gould Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint Gaudens,' 1973 Richard Benson Museum of Modern Art, NYC . #RichardBenson #AugustusSaintGaudens #MoMA #NGA #RobertGouldShaw #Memorial #54thMassachusetts #CivilWar #photograph #sculpture #fineart #artistquotes #artistwisdom #BostonArts

"I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow." . ‘Blue Green Red,’ 1964 Ellsworth Kelly Whitney Museum of American Art . #EllsworthKelly #WhitneyMuseum #OnView #HappyBirthday #ArtistBirthdays #ArtistQuotes #ArtistWisdom #BornOnThisDay #FineArt #ModernArt

“What I'm fascinated about is basic human questions as what reality is, why we are here, and the limitation of our senses which are not allowing us to ever really answer those questions.” . ‘ParaPivot I and II,’ 2019 Alicja Kwade Met Museum, NYC . (Photo: Alicja Kwade)

“Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.” . ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884,’ 1884-6 Georges Seurat The Art Institute of Chicago . #GeorgesSeurat #Seurat #ARTIC #ArtInstituteChicago #fineart #modernart #arthistory #summer #pointillism #artistquotes

“We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.” . ‘The Return,’ 1956-8 Philip Guston Tate Collection . #PhilipGuston #Guston #Tate #ModernArt #FineArt #AbstractArt #HappyBirthdayPhilipGuston #ArtistBirthdays #ArtHistory #oiloncanvas #arthandling #artstorage

“I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.” . ‘The Rainbow Landscape,’ 1636 Peter Paul Rubens The Wallace Collection, London . #PeterPaulRubens #WallaceCollection #HappyBirthdayRubens #BornOnThisDay #ArtistQuotes #ArtistWisdom #FineArt

“Abstract art ... searches for new ways to achieve harmony and equilibrium.” . ‘Tondo Variation in Red,’ 1978 Ilya Bolotowsky Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. . #IlyaBolotowsky #Smithsonian #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum #SmithsonianMuseum #AbstractArt #FineArt

“You must plan to be spontaneous.” . ‘A Bigger Splash,’ 1967 David Hockney Tate Collection . #DavidHockney #ABiggerSplash #Tate #HappyBirthdayDavidHockney #ArtistBirthday #ArtHistoryBirthdays #ArtistQuotes #ArtistWisdom #ModernArt #ContemporaryArt #FineArt #PopArt #splash #pool

"Without atmosphere a painting is nothing." . ‘The Night Watch,’ 1642 Rembrandt van Rijn Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam . #Rembrandt #RembrandtvanRijn #Rijksmuseum #TheNightWatch #masterpiece #HappyBirthdayRembrandt #ArtistBirthdays #BornOnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory #fineart #chiaroscuro

"...I considered any art pointless if it did not put itself at the disposal of political struggle...my art was to be a gun and a sword." . ‘Eclipse of the Sun,’ 1926 George Grosz Heckscher Museum of Art . #GeorgeGrosz #EclipseoftheSun #ArtistQuotes #fineart #masterpiece #NYCarts

“Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.” . ‘The Subway,’ 1950 George Tooker Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC . #GeorgeTooker #TheWhitneyMuseum #AmericanArt #TheSubway #ModernArt #ArtistQuotes #ArtistBirthdays

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” . ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans,’ 1962 Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, NYC . #AndyWarhol #MoMA #ModernArt #FineArt #BirthdayWeek #Warhol #Campbells #NYCartmuseums #artistquotes #artistwisdom #PopArt

“Others may know better how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture.” . ‘The Shipwreck,’ 1772 Claude-Joseph Vernet National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. . #ClaudeJosephVernet #NGADC #DCarts #OnView #BornOnThisDay #ArtistQuotes

“Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.” . ‘Back Lot, Isleton, California,’ 1986 Robert Dawson J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles . #RobertDawson #JPaulGettyMuseum #BornOnThisDay #ArtistQuotes #ArtistWisdom #photography #WorldPhotographyDay #AmericanArt #OnThisDay

“What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.” . ‘Trabum (Element Series),’ 1951 Carl Andre Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC . #CarlAndre #Guggenheim #NYCArts #BornOnThisDay #ArtistQuotes

"No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times." . 'Sky Cathedral,' 1958 Louise Nevelson MoMA, NYC . #LouiseNevelson #MoMA #NYCArts #ArtistBirthdays #BornOnThisDay #ArtistQuotes #ArtistWisdom #ModernArt

"I do not judge, I only chronicle." . ‘Gertrude Kingston,’ 1909 John Singer Sargent On view at the Morgan Library & Museum, NYC . “John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal” . #JohnSingerSargent #TheMorganLibrary #LibrariesWeek #OnView #portraiture #charcoal #FineArt #ModernArt

“Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.” . ‘The Park Bench,’ 1946 Horace Pippin On view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art . #HoracePippin #PhilaMuseum #FromWartoPeace #ModernArt #FineArt #OnView #AfricanAmericanArt #ArtistQuotes #artstorage #arthandling

"We have art so that we shall not die of reality." . ‘Friedrich Nietzsche,’ 1906 Edvard Munch Munch-museet, Oslo, Norway . #FriedrichNietzsche #EdvardMunch #MunchMuseum #NietzscheQuotes #HappyBirthdayNietzsche #BornOnThisDay #PhilosopherWisdom #PhilosopherBirthdays #ArtHistory

“A canvas is never empty.” . ‘White Painting [three panel],’ 1951 Robert Rauschenberg SFMOMA, San Francisco . #RobertRauschenberg #SFMOMA #HappyBirthdayRauschenberg #ArtistBirthdays #ArtistWisdom #ArtistQuotes #BornOnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory #fineart #modernart #monochrome