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"For me, #art, and especially #music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence."

🎶Gabriel #Fauré, French organist, composer and educator, #DOTD 4 November 1924.

His "Requiem" is my favourite work:

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🎨 #PaulDelaroche, French painter specializing in historical scenes, #DOTD 4 November 1856. #Art #Painting
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"Life and #art are not two different things."

🎶 #FelixMendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor, #DOTD 4 November 1847.

▶️ youtu.be/SEkcP8lZvZA #ClassicalMusic
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"The artist, no less than the writer, needs a vocabulary before he can embark on a "copy" of reality.

🎨 #ErnstGombrich, Austrian-born #art historian and author (The Story of Art), #DOTD 3 November 2001. #ArtHistory #History
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"It took them a while to catch on that #Batman would be the greatest."

🦇 #BobKane, American author and illustrator, co-created Batman for #DCComics, #DOTD 3 November 1998. #Art #Illustration #Comics
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"We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe."

🎨 #HenriMatisse, French painter, #DOTD 3 November 1954. #Art #Painting
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