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René Magritte: "The purpose of art is mystery"
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"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been".
"Essere surrealisti significa escludere dalla tua mente ogni ricordo di ciò che hai visto ed essere sempre alla ricerca di ciò che non è mai stato".
Paris painting
"Paris is an ocean.
Explore it, and you still won’t know its depths".
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"Parigi è come un oceano. Gettateci una sonda e non ne conoscerete mai la profondità.
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Victor Hugo | Surrealist Illustrator
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was not only one of France's greatest poet, novelist and dramatist, but also a prolific artist, painter, watercolourist, draughtsman and caricaturist.
Victor Hugo produced more than 4000 drawings.
Originally pursued as a casual hobby, drawing became more important to Hugo shortly before his exile, when he made the decision to stop writing in order to devote himself to politics.
Drawing became his exclusive creative outlet during the period 1848-1851.
Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you / Non è che muoia d’amor, muoio di te
I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you
my love-dying of the love of you,
of my dire need for my skin of you,
of my soul and my mouth of you,
of the miserable wretch I am without you.
I’m dying of you and me, of both
of us, of this-
ripped to shreds, torn apart,
the two of us are dying, dying of it.
August Macke: "The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence"
• "I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark".
• "Mi interessa creare uno spazio attraverso contrasti di colore, piuttosto che attraverso semplici ombre di luce e buio".
Platone | The Arts in education
The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state and the just man ecc..
It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.
In the dialogue, Socrates discusses with various Athenians and foreigners the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man.
Raffaello | Scuola di Atene - Platone / Raphael - The School of Athens (1509-1511)
Elli Michler | I wish you Time
I don't wish you all sorts of gifts.
I just wish you, what most people don't have.
I wish you the time to be happy and to laugh
and if you use it, you can make something out of it.
I wish you the time for your doings and thinking,
not only for yourself, but also to give away.
Salvatore Quasimodo | Il girasole piega a occidente / Almost a Madrigal
Il girasole piega a occidente
e già precipita il giorno nel suo
occhio in rovina e l'aria dell'estate
s'addensa e già curva le foglie e il fumo
dei cantieri. S'allontana con scorrere
secco di nubi e stridere di fulmini
quest'ultimo gioco del cielo. Ancora,
Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers, 1888
Anne Sexton | Noi / Us
Ero avvolta nella pelliccia
nera, nella pelliccia bianca
e tu mi svolgevi
e in una luce d’oro
poi m’incoronasti,
mentre fuori dardi di neve
diagonali battevano alla porta.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Ridi e il mondo riderà con te. Piangi, e piangerai da solo..."
Ridi e il mondo riderà con te.
Piangi, e piangerai da solo.
Poiché il vecchio mondo triste deve prendere
in prestito la sua allegria,
ma ha già abbastanza guai per conto suo.
Canta, e le colline ti risponderanno.
Rene Magritte | La vie heureuse, 1944
Antonio Calderara | Abstract / Minimalist painter
- "Contemplation, harmony, proportion, stillness; this is the invisible thread that weave my aspiration" - Antonio Calderara
Self-taught as a child growing up in Milan, and later mentored for a time by a young Lucio Fontana, the earliest influences of Antonio Calderara (1903-1978) were of the figuration and light effects of Piero della Francesca, Seurat and the Milanese Novecento painters.
After abandoning his university studies in engineering in 1925 the young man dedicated himself fully to experimenting with colour and form.
Pablo Neruda | Your Laughter
Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.
Do not take away the rose,
the lance flower that you pluck,
the water that suddenly
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Dance at Bougival, 1883 | Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Coco Chanel creò la nuova Donna del XX secolo
Forte ed ambiziosa, Gabrielle Coco Chanel (1883-1971), sovvertì la moda femminile costretta all’interno di rigidi schemi sociali, rivoluzionò il concetto di femminilità, imponendosi come figura fondamentale del fashion design e della cultura popolare del XX secolo.
Chanel non faceva parte della aristocrazia parigina, né dell’alta borghesia, ma riuscì a rendere à la page gli abiti delle sartine e delle commesse anche tra le ricche signore di Deauville.
Wisława Szymborska | Hatred
See how efficient it still is,
how it keeps itself in shape -
our century’s hatred.
How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.
How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.
It is not like other feelings.
At once both older and younger.
Out of Africa, 1985
"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"
Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Shampoo Scene in "Out of Africa"
Karen Blixen | L'Incontro
Ah, quando sei lontano e nessuno
più nomina il tuo nome -
quando ovunque mi rechi sento
cupo e gelido un vuoto -
comincio a credere che tu sia solo un sogno
nato dalle brame della mia mente,
Charles-Amable Lenoir | Reverie, 1893
Salvador Dali: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams"!
• "I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality".
• "If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it".
• "We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art".
Love Letter from Balzac to Countess Ewelina Hańska
My beloved angel,
I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them.
I can no longer think of nothing but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.
I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
As for my heart, there you will always be - very much so. I have a delicious sense of you there.
But my God, what is to become of me, if you have deprived me of my reason?
Lorenzo Bartolini | Buste d'Ewelina Hańska, 1837 | Musée Bertrand, à Châteauroux, France
Cassie Phillips | Let them
If they want to choose something or someone over you,
Let them.
If they want to go weeks without talking to you,
Let them.
If they are okay with never seeing you,
Let them.
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