Celebrating 60 years!
The Dublin Art Society (DAS) was co-founded in 1961 by Dorothy Armstrong and Kenneth Webb. We have a mixture of over 60 talented professional and amateur artists in our ranks.
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“To be an artist… you have to be very severe with your amount of energy… To have an overriding hobby, that's the secret. Mine was an overriding hobby, I couldn't get rid of it.”
Mary Swanzy
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for.”
Georgia O Keeffe
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“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Picasso
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There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.
Mary Cassatt
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It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
Berthe Morisot
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
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“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
Lucian Freud
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida Kahlo