Mark Twain Quotes: "Classic, a book which people praise and don't read.."

• "Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else".

• "I libri sono per le persone che desiderano essere altrove".

• "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear".

• "Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura, padronanza della paura, non assenza della paura".

Mark Twain (1835-1910) Statue at Finney County Public Library in Garden City, Kansas

• "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it".

• "Il perdono è la fragranza che la viola sparge sul tallone che l'ha schiacciata".

Marcel Nino Pajot, 1945 | Alla ricerca di Don Quichotte..

Fin da bambino l'artista Francese Marcel Nino Pajot ha sviluppato le sue abilità nel disegno.

È un regalo di sua madre, Reine Pajot-Védry, anche lei artista, che ha realizzato sculture straordinarie.

Come artista autodidatta, Pajot ha migliorato le sue capacità di dipingere fianco a fianco con altri artisti.

Li ha conosciuti alla Beaux-Arts Society del Perigord, in Francia.

È stata fondata nel 1978 da Jean-Daniel Ribeyrol e Paul-André Enard, due pittori.

Mexican Art History and Sitemap

Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi - Io ti cielo, 1947

Various types of visual arts developed in the geographical area now known as Mexico.

The development of these arts roughly follows the history of Mexico, divided into the pre hispanic Mesoamerican era, the colonial period, with the period after Mexican War of Independence, the development Mexican national identity through art in the nineteenth century, and the florescence of modern Mexican art after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).

Frida Kahlo | Quotes /Aforismi

• "Il surrealismo è la magica sorpresa di trovare un leone in quell’armadio in cui si voleva prendere una camicia".
• "Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts".
• "La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.
• "Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing our interior".
• "Bellezza e bruttezza sono un miraggio perché gli altri finiscono per vedere la nostra interiorità".

David Riedel, 1956 | Still life painter

David Riedel was born in Indiana and lived there until moving to Tempe, Arizona to study art.

He fell in love with the Southwest, graduating from Northern Arizona University in 1982 with a BFA in printmaking.

David still lives in the Southwest near Taos, New Mexico with his wife and daughter.

JuLee Simmons | Figurative painter

JuLee Simmons began painting in oils more than thirty years ago, at the age of ten.

That discovery unleashed a passion which has animated her life to the present day.

"Sometimes I wish I could make art like I did when I was young", JuLee recalls.

"There were no mistakes then. A bad drawing of a cow could turn into a pig.

Now my work is more of a struggle. It takes a lot of insight and patience to make that mark on the paper deliberate and profound".

Lita Cabellut, 1961 | Mixed media painter

Lita Cabellut is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands.

Cabellut works on large scale canvases using a contemporary variation of the fresco technique.

Lita Cabellut was born in Barcelona, into a Sinti family and lived on the streets until the age of 12 when she was adopted by a prominent family.

She was introduced to her masters in the Prado: Velazquez, Goya and Frans Hals and became deeply affected by art.

Igor Morski, 1960 | Surrealist painter

Igor Morski is a Polish🎨 graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. Presently, he focuses on mixed media graphic art, based manly on photo manipulation, drawing, recently also 3D.

Igor Morski graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań (now the University of Arts).