Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (1876-1966)

Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (31 October 1876 - 9 August 1966) was a Lithuanian painter and art collector.

Educated at the Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary, Žmuidzinavičius worked as a teacher while pursuing art education in the evenings in Warsaw.

He further studied at the Académie Colarossi and Académie Vitti in Paris.

In 1906, he returned to Lithuania and organized the First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art and the Lithuanian Art Society which he chaired.

He also established the Vilnius Art Society which united artists of different nationalities.

In 1908-1909 and 1921-1924, he toured western Europe and the United States.

Stikki Peaches | Street art

Canadian artist Stikki Peaches, is renown for having his work spotted around the world and also known for employing techniques through the uses of acrylic paint, collage and silk screens he covers international landscapes with his pop-culture references and lowbrow street art.

Stikki Peaches’ works are featured in the URBAN NATION 2018 exhibition, ‘UN-DERSTAND The Power of Art as a Social Architect’.

From his early stages in 2008, his tagline, “What If Art Ruled The World?” has captivated the public in contemplation and in awe of his unique skill and nostalgic street art.

Claude Debussy: "Music is the space between the notes"!

(Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term.

He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris.

He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors.

He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande.

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) | Claude Debussy, 1902

Wassily Kandinsky: "Il colore è un potere che influenza direttamente l'anima"!

• "Il colore è il tasto, l'occhio il martelletto, l'anima il pianoforte dalle molte corde.

L'artista è una mano che toccando questo o quel tasto mette in vibrazione l'anima umana".

• "Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.

The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul".

• "A parallel between color and music can only be relative - just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments".

• "In generale il colore è un mezzo che consente di esercitare un influsso diretto sull'anima".

Martha Graham: "La danza è un canto del corpo, sia esso di gioia o di pena"!

• "I più grandi ballerini non sono grandi per il loro livello tecnico, sono grandi per la loro passione".

• "Le nostre braccia hanno origine dalla schiena perché un tempo erano ali".

• "Non danziamo con i piedi: danziamo con le ovaie, con l’utero, e con tutto il corpo e l’anima".

• "Io non volevo essere un albero, un fiore o un’onda. Nel corpo di una danzatrice noi, in quanto pubblico, dobbiamo vedere noi stessi, non l’imitazione del comportamento, delle azioni di ogni giorno; non fenomeni della natura, non creature esotiche di un altro pianeta: ma qualcosa, una piccola cosa di quel miracolo che è l’essere umano".

Anna Vinogradova

Dalai Lama: 18 principi della felicità

1. Tieni sempre conto del fatto che un grande amore e dei grande risultati comportano un grande rischio.

2. Quando perdi, non perdere la lezione.

3. Segui sempre le tre "R": Rispetto per te stesso, Rispetto per gli altri, Responsabilità per le tue azioni.

4. Ricorda che non ottenere quel che si vuole può essere talvolta un meraviglioso colpo di fortuna.

5. Impara le regole, affinché tu possa infrangerle in modo appropriato.

Lorenzo Quinn

Fredric Michael Wood, 1944 | Pittore impressionista

Fredric Michael Wood: "Art first came to my attention in a serious way as a boy fortunate to spend many of my formative years in Europe while we were stationed there as a military family.

I was hooked when I discovered an old impressionist oil painting, in a storeroom in our house overseas, of the French countryside, and I stared at it for a long long time trying to imagine how one could paint such a scene! I resolved to get beyond my little drawings and watercolors, and learn to paint like that!

Thanks to childhood, naiveté, I didn't know then how difficult that would be, when, later, much later, I would discover great artists of the past such as John S. Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Anders Zorn, and Frank Tenney Johnson, along with illustrators like Howard Pyle and others from the Golden Age of Illustration", as well as contemporary artists, Andrew Wyeth, and John Asarro, and so many others of my contemporaries, whose work would compel, but challenge me so"!