I happened to be in Florida recently, where I visited the Norton Museum of Art, where there’s a lot going on. Just now I want to mention one delightful little touch. Along the staircases between the first and the third floors, the Norton has posted short quotations from artists. I wish I had take a picture, but I didn’t. But I did like five quotes there well enough to write them down. Can you guess who said them before peeking at the answers below?
Here they are:
“I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses.”
“I hope with all my heart that there will be painting in heaven.”
“If I think, everything is lost.”
“It would be beyond me to agree with the critics.”
“Color is my daylong obsession and torment.”
I watched as people who used the stairs stopped to read and, often, to remark or to chuckle.
Here are the answers, top to bottom: Delacroix, Corot, Cezanne, Whistler, Monet