Milan Kundera | Quotes / Aforismi

Rene Magritte (Belgian Surrealist painter, 1898-1967) | Les Amants / The Lovers

• "..No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it".

• "Contro i sentimenti siamo disarmati, poiché esistono e basta - e sfuggono a qualunque censura. Possiamo rimproverarci un gesto, una frase, ma non un sentimento: su di esso non abbiamo alcun potere".

Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926)

Ritrattista Danese di origini Tedesche, Bertha Wegmann è stata la prima donna a detenere una cattedra presso l'Accademia reale Danese di belle arti.

All'età di cinque anni, la sua famiglia si trasferì a Copenaghen, dove suo padre divenne un commerciante.

Era un amante dell'arte e ha trascorso gran parte del suo tempo libero a dipingere.

Ha mostrato interesse per il disegno in tenera età, ma non ha ricevuto istruzione formale fino a quando aveva diciannove anni, quando iniziò a prendere lezioni da Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, Heinrich Buntzen e Frederik Christian Lund.

Alexander Pushkin / Camille Claudel | I loved you / Ti amai..

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)🎨 | La Valse, 1883 | Musée Rodin, Paris

I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul

The former love has never gone away,

But let it not recall to you my dole;

I wish not sadden you in any way.

Camille Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Camille Corot (1796-1875) was a leading figure in the Barbizon school🎨 of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

Peter McGowan | Flower paintings

Peter McGowan was born and raised in Yorkshire, England and still makes his home there.

He paints from his studio in the county that has inspired many great artists, including Henry Moore and David Hockney.

Light and its effects fascinate McGowan.

He works in several media, including oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels, to translate this interest to paper and canvas.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | Hope / La Speranza

Alex Venezia (American painter, 1993)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all

And sweetest in the Gale is heard

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest Sea

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Albert André (1869-1954)

A Post-Impressionist artist and painter of 'intimiste' interiors, still lives and Parisian scenes, he was born in Lyon in 1869.

André spent his childhood vacations in Laudun where his family owned vineyards.

Aged 20, he left for Paris where he studied painting at the Académie Julian.