[D] Quotes by famous painters & great artists, names beginning with D:

artists names: Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas - Eugéne Délacroix – Theo van Doesburg – Jean Dubuffet – Marcel Duchamp

* Salvador Dali, his art 7 life quotes by the famous great painter artist in Surrealism; wih biography facts
Name, Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989), the famous Spanish painter in Surealism is depicted here in 37 of his life and art quotes with biography facts. Dalí was a highly imaginative great artist and person which he expressed mainly in oil paintings and his bizarre behavior. The famous great Catalan artist with Spanish nationality was an early friend of the writer Lorca. He officially joined for a few years the Surrealist group in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, where he also met his muse and wife Gala. Having lived together since 1929, they married in 1934. Dali as a famous artist had an affinity for the unusual and grandiose in his life, which he expressed in his paintings as well as in behaviour; his eccentric manner became an important part of his huge fame.


* Edgar Degas, his art & life quotes by the the famous great painter artist in Impressionism; with biography facts
Name, Edgar Degas; famous great painter artist of French Impressionism, is depicted here in 15 of his art & life quotes & some biography facts. Degas lived and worked in Paris and was an early friend of Manet. He never saw himself as a ‘classical’ painter and not as a ‘revolutionary Impressionist’; also he didn’t paint outside very much, but nevertheless Manet played a leading and inspirational role in organizing the Impressionist exhibitions which started in 1872


* Eugène Delacroix, his art & life quotes by the famous great painter artist in French Romanticism; with biography facts.
Name, Eugène Delacroix; the famous great painter artist, leading painter of French Romanticism, is depicted in circa 11 of his inspirational life quotes and art quotations. After the death of Gericault, it was Delacroix who became the important and inspirational painter of French Romanticism. The English landscape-painters John Constable and Bonnington inspired him a lot when he was a young artist


* Theo van Doesburg, his art & life quotes by the famous great painter artist of De STIJL, Dutch modern art movement; with biography facts
Name, Theo van Doesburg; the famous Dutch abstract painter artist - co-founder of ‘De Stijl’ with Piet Mondrian and later in his life active in Dada with the artist Kurt Schwitters - is depicted in circa 34 of his art & life quotes and some biography facts, on painting and on architecture


* Jean Dubuffet, his art and life quotes by the famous great painter and sculptor artist of Art Brute; with biography facts
Name, Jean Dubuffet; a famous great French artist, painter and sculptor. He is depicted in 25 of his inspirational life quotes and art quotations he made on his modern ‘art brute’ / art brute. It was emotional and direct painting art where Dubuffet was searching and striving for during his life. Jean Dubuffet himself called his art ‘Art brute’. He made also several huge ‘sculptural’ works which people could enter.


* Marcel Duchamp, his art & life quotes by the great painter and sculptor artist of Surrealism, famous for his readymade; with some biography facts;
Name, Marcel Duchamp, the famous surrealist artist - famous painter and sculptor of ready-mades - is depicted here in 24 of his inspirational art & life quotes and biography facts. Duchamp was from origin a French Surrealism artist who lived and worked in America for decades. He became a famous inspirational artist because of his early ready-made’s, as the ‘Bicycle wheel’ or the ‘Fresh Widow’ in 1920. Later in his life he became ‘famous’ because he stopped making art: the so-called ‘Silence of Duchamp’. Duchamp inspired young American artists as Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.