Salvatore Quasimodo | Alleyway / Vicolo

Sometimes your voice calls to me,

and I do not know what skies

or waters you wake me to:

A net of sunlight that glazes

your walls that at evening were

a swaying of late lanterns

in the workshops filled

with the breeze and sadness.

Telemaco Signorini (1835-1901)| Il ghetto di Firenze, 1892

Josef Kinzel (1852-1925) | Genre painter

Josef Kinzel, father of the painter Elise Kinzel, was born on in Lobenstein in Silesia and died in the Wachau (Austria).

The genre🎨, landscape and portrait painter studied at first under Eduard Engerth, Carl von Blaas, Carl Wurzinger, August Eisenmenger and Christian Griepenkerl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Pablo Neruda: Never Blame Anyone / Non incolpare nessuno!

Sarolta Ban (Hungarian artist, 1982)

Never complain about anyone, nor anything,

because basically you have done

what you wanted in your life.

Accept the difficulty of improving yourself

and the courage to start changing yourself.

The triumph of the true man emerges from

the ashes of his mistake.

Non incolpare nessuno,

non lamentarti mai di nessuno, di niente,

perché in fondo

Tu hai fatto quello che volevi nella vita.

Accetta la difficoltà di costruire te stesso

ed il valore di cominciare a correggerti.

Il trionfo del vero uomo

proviene delle ceneri del suo errore.

Timothy Easton, 1943 | Impressionist painter

Timothy Nigel Dendy Easton, was born in Tadworth, Surrey, son of Dendy Bryan Easton, and his wife Iris Joan née Keyser, his brother was Dendy Peter Easton, a fine art consultant at Bonham's and Sotheby's.

Encouraged by his father's passion for collecting paintings and his own keen interest in drawing, Easton decided he wished to become an artist.

Anna Richards Brewster | Impressionist painter

American painter Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952) was among the most successful international women artists of her time, yet her name has largely been forgotten.

Recent decades have seen a slight revival of interest in her work, including a solo exhibition at the Newport Art Museum in 1985, and a major solo exhibition in 2008 which traveled between the Hudson River Museum, Butler Institute of American Art and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum.

Edgar Lee Masters | Silence / Il silenzio

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.

He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man and Illinois Poems.

In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay and Walt Whitman.

Lucien Lévy Dhurmer (French Art Nouveau painter, 1865-1953) | Le Silence, 1895 | Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer | Le Silence, 1895

"Le Silence", a picture that Levy-Dhurmer kept throughout his life, is without doubt one of his most fascinating works.

It has the suggestive power of an icon, an image that is all the more compelling for being presented as an enigma: fixed in a hieratic pose, with eyes hidden in shadow, the figure eludes all explanation.

Solid and immobile, it keeps what we imagine to be the secret of its mourning to itself.

The long, falling folds, enhanced by the vertical format, cannot but evoke both physical gravity (from which it is impossible to escape) and moral gravity.