B
Braque, Bacon, Bonnard, Borch, Balla, Boulogne, Bunker, Burri, Both, Bellows, Balthus, Botero, famous « B »s
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Babo
Babo, not so mad and very great
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Banking
Banking: a hell as well as a heaven
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Baroque
Baroque: eccentricity escaping from mediocrity
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Bas-relief
Bas-relief: sculpture in two dimensions
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Beautiful
What is beautiful is a question of impression and love
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Beauty
Beauty is often as near as 1cm or 1 kg to ugliness
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Benefactor
A patron is either a benefactor or a speculator
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Bequeath
It is better to give in your lifetime than to bequeath
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Bibelot
The bibelot is better in the shop window than for use
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Bible
The Akoun: the bible for the art enthusiast
Posters
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Bidding
The bids are climbing: every artist’s dream
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Biography
The biography is the ancestor of the CV
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Birth place
There is always a birth place for art even if those who are its parents come from the street
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Black
White letters on black background: it’s a Ben.
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Blackmail
Love and art should never be the object of blackmail
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Blazon
The blazon is to the noble what the name is to the poor man
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Blue
Blue: from violet to green via yellow and red
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Blur
Blur has no half measures: either it proves talent or mediocrity
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Body
The human body, without which art would just resemble a florist’s shop window
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Bohemia
Bohemia is the art of being happy in poverty; unfortunately nobody has ever made collections of it.
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Boudin
She has everything from an Eugène Boudin; everything which is elegant or everything from a cow?
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Broker
A good broker is the one who finds what you are looking for
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Bronze
The bronze is draped in its patina; so beautiful and so light that it always seems to be cold
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Brush
For the background there was the brush; unfortunately too often for the forms too
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Brush stroke
A brush stroke has nothing to do with a pencil stroke; one is common, the other is rare
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Burin
The burin: 95% left to the talent of the gesture and 5% to chance
Jean Hautiais
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