Claude Monet | The Rain (La pluie), 1886-1887

"The Rain (La pluie)" was created in 1886-1887 by French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).

• "Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment".
• "I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.."

Georges de la Tour | The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635

The only diurnal painting by Georges de La Tour in the Louvre along with the Saint Thomas, the Cheat illustrates a theme that was frequently taken up in the wake of Caravaggio.

The young man is subjected here to three major temptations according to 17th-century moral standards: gambling, wine and lust.

Another version with notable variations is known to exist, the Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum).

Diego Rivera | Portrait of a Spaniard, 1912

The illustrious Salon d’Automne - from its inception the world’s leading avant-garde venue along with the Salon des Artistes Indépendants - opened its annual exhibition at the Grand Palais on October 1, 1912.

Displaying over seventeen hundred paintings and sculptures to an expectant Parisian public, it included a portrait section of nineteenth century paintings all executed by French artists and, most notoriously, a gallery of increasingly scandalous and rejected Cubist works such as La Maison Cubiste, a three dimensional installation that housed works by Duchamp, Léger, Gleizes and others.

Diego López García | Sevillana en su patio, 1918

Diego López García (Seville, February 22, 1875 - ibid, June 23, 1969) was a Spanish painter**. López García work in realistic style with techniques of impressionist** painting.

Jean Metzinger | Donna allo specchio, 1916

Donna allo specchio / Femme au miroir è un dipinto dell'artista Francese Jean Metzinger.

Questa forma sintetica distillata del cubismo esemplifica il continuo interesse di Metzinger, nel 1916, verso una minore attività superficiale, con una forte enfasi su piani astratti più grandi, più piatti e sovrapposti.

Il primato manifesto della configurazione geometrica sottostante, radicata nell'astratto, controlla quasi ogni elemento della composizione.

Il ruolo del colore rimane primordiale, ma ora è contenuto entro confini ben delineati rispetto a diversi lavori precedenti.

Pablo Picasso: "Love is the greatest refreshment in life"

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Youth has no age.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

A Lonely Road Is That I Walked | Poem by Pablo Picasso

I walk a lonely road, the one and only one I' ve ever known.

I don't know where it goes, but I keep walking on and on.

I walked the lonely and un trodden road for I was walking on the bridge

of the broken dreams.

Goodbye! | Poem by Pablo Picasso

I was thrown away to fend for myself in the stars unknown. Yet, there is no light there. You promised that eternity would not tear us apart. Yet, here I am, uncared for. I wanted to share my being with you. Yet, time after time, you refused me. Maybe I need you too much. Maybe you are my survival. I don't know why I still want you.

The light of the full moon is dull, for your face is not there to emphasise it. The glory of the sun is gone in waste, for you are not there to reflect it. You say it is only a matter of time. I ask, what is time? What is meaning in this world now.