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Akira Kurosawa
1910-1998 · Japan
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and editor whose thirty completed feature films include some of the most influential works in the…
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"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
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Frida Kahlo
1907-1954 · Mexico
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter whose intensely personal and politically engaged work has made her one of the most…
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"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
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Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750 · Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and organist usually regarded as the supreme master of Baroque music and one of the greatest composers…
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"I was obliged to work hard. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
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Katsushika Hokusai
1760-1849 · Japan (Edo / Tokyo)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period, widely regarded as the greatest artist of the ukiyo-e tradition and one…
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"From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things."
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Wassily Kandinsky
1866-1944 · Russia / Germany / France
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist usually credited as one of the pioneers of abstract painting in the European tradition. He…
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"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."
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