E. L. Doctorow | Quotes / Aforismi

• Scrivere è un'esplorazione. Parti dal nulla, ed impari mentre procedi.
• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

• Pianificare di scrivere non è scrivere. Abbozzare, ricercare, parlare con le persone di quello che stai facendo, nessuna di queste cose è scrivere. Scrivere è scrivere. 
• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Salvador Dali🎨 - Book Transforming Itself into a Woman, 1940

Leonardo Bazzaro | Naturalist painter

Leonardo Bazzaro (Milan, 1853-1937) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and interior vedute.

After picking up the basics in the studio of the painter Gaetano Fasanotti, Bazzaro enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan, where he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in 1875.

The following years saw a series of perspective views set in Milanese churches and mansions.

Klimt's Schubert am Klavier, burned by the Nazis in 1945

Gustav Klimt's decorations for Palais Dumba -Vienna University- were his most controversial and radical paintings. These cosmic dream pictures were attacked for their eroticism and atheism in his lifetime – today they might secure his reputation as a great modernist. But together with other paintings, including Schubert at the Piano (above), they are said to have been burned by the SS in 1945.

Jules Combarieau: La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni

• La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni.
• Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Duy Huynh, 1975 ~ Symbolist /Surrealist painter

Picasso: Il peggior nemico della creatività è il buon gusto

Pablo Picasso - The serenade, 1942

• Il peggior nemico della creatività è il buon gusto.
• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Ernst Barlach | Expressionist sculptor | Degenerate Art

Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called “modern Gothic”.

Barlach also experimented with graphic art and playwriting, and his work in all media is notable for its preoccupation with the sufferings of humanity.

Fritz Klimsch | Figurative sculptor

German sculptor Fritz Klimsch (1870-1960) trained at the Königliche Akademische Hochschule für die bildenden Künste (Royal Fine Art Academy) in Berlin in the drawing class taught by the painter Ernst Hancke and in the modelling class under Albert Wolff.

From 1887-1890 he was a pupil of Fritz Schaper's.

While still a student, the young sculptor produced his first important work, winning awards and his first taste of recognition.

Alberto Manfredi | Cubo-futurist painter

Italian painter🎨 and engraver Alberto Manfredi (Reggio Emilia, 1930-2001) after graduating at the University of Bologna was, for many years, professor of etching at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence.

He was one of the most respected and refined painters and print-makers in Italy. Manfredi frequently met Giorgio Morandi and made many portraits of him.

He moved also in literary circles and as a result illustrated over a hundred literary works and 'livres d’artiste'.

He held many exhibitions of his paintings which received critical acclaim (the critic Maccari wrote 'Manfredi is one of the very few painters who still knows how to draw').

As a result of his fine draughtsmanship he became a very accomplished printmaker of etchings, drypoints and linocuts, with a wonderful sense of the use of colour.

His subjects include portraits, landscapes, animals and female figures and a number of catalogues have been published by leading galleries in which he exhibited, in Italy and France.

Martin Johnson Heade | Landscapes

From: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum

The American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) started out as a portraitist and took up landscape painting late in life.

He spent three years travelling around Europe during his formative years.

This first Grand Tour marked the start of an itinerant lifestyle which he continued to lead throughout his entire existence.

From 1840 to 1859 he lived in Philadelphia, New York, Saint Louis, Chicago, Trenton and Providence.