Rabindranath Tagore | Vita della mia vita / Life of my life

Vita della mia vita,

sempre cercherò di conservare

puro il mio corpo,

sapendo che la tua carezza vivente

mi sfiora tutte le membra.

James Gwynne

Rabindranath Tagore | Se tu non parli / If you do not speak..

Se tu non parli

riempirò il mio cuore del tuo silenzio

e lo sopporterò.

Resterò qui fermo ad aspettare come la notte

nella sua veglia stellata

con il capo chino a terra

paziente.

Marc Chagall | The Lovers, 1929

Anthony De Mello | L'Aquila che si crede un Pollo / The Eagle who thought he was a Chicken

Un uomo trovò un uovo d'aquila e lo mise nel nido di una chioccia.

L'uovo si schiuse contemporaneamente a quelli della covata e l'aquilotto crebbe insieme ai pulcini.

Per tutta la vita l'aquilotto fece quel che facevano i polli nel cortile, pensando di essere uno di loro.

Frugava il terreno in cerca di vermi ed insetti, chiocciava e schiamazzava, scuoteva le ali alzandosi da terra di qualche decimetro.

Anthony de Mello: "La prova dell’amore è il sacrificio.."

Pensate forse di aiutare le persone perché ne siete innamorate?

Ebbene, devo darvi una notizia.

Non si è mai innamorati di qualcuno.

Si è soltanto innamorati della idea che ci si è fatti di una data persona, un’idea preconcetta e dettata dalla speranza.

Fermatevi a pensarci un minuto: non siete mai innamorati di qualcuno, siete innamorati della vostra idea preconcetta riguardo a quella persona.

Rene Magrittè | Les Amants

Y.G. Srimati (1926-2007)

Born in Mysore into a cultured Mandayam Brahmin Tamil family and educated in Madras (present-day Chennai, in South India), the Indian artist Y. G. Srimati, at a young age, received classical training in the four traditional South Indian arts-voice, music, dance, and painting.

She became a highly accomplished vocalist and performer of classical Indian music and kept a lifelong friendship with the preeminent Carnatic vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi.

She also toured in India and the United States, and in the United Kingdom with the influential classical Indian dancer Ram Gopal.

Archan Nair, 1982

Archan Nair is a Visual artist, Illustrator and Digital Artist, specializing in mixed media, illustration, and digital art based out of Berlin, Germany.

Archan's visual expressions are part of a journey which is really influenced by the mysteries of our existence and how every action, emotion, and our interconnectedness in a universal scale sets of a chain of reactions.. which we experience from the micro to the macro scale.

Formerly a fashion major and entrepreneur, Archan started painting in 2006 at the age of 24 and made the shift as an independent artist in 2007.

Anish Kapoor, 1954 | Sky Mirror | Steel sculptures

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art.

Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.

His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.

Osho Rajneesh: "Se l'amore diventa profondo, resti in silenzio"...

• "Fa' di ogni passo una tua scelta. Crea te stesso e assumitene l'intera responsabilità".

• "La vita ha due polarità: l'essere e il fare. L'essere è la tua natura: è sempre con te, non devi fare nulla per averlo. È qualcosa che esiste già, che sei fin da ora; non è qualcosa che possiedi. Non esiste nessuna distanza: sei già il tuo essere. Il fare è una conquista".

• "Il problema autentico è risvegliare nell'individuo quel tanto di consapevolezza capace di generare in lui il desiderio di divenire libero, intelligente, autorealizzato e pienamente consapevole".

• "L'ego è uno sforzo costante per andare controcorrente".

Rene Magritte

Raghunath Sahoo | Capturing Life with Watercolor

Indian professional painter Raghunath Sahoo is a famous watercolorist from Bhubaneshwar, who is reaping the fruits of his hard work.

He completed his studies in art from BK Art College in 1995.

He is an artist who discerns between realistic paintings and paintings that are inspired by reality.

His inclination towards painting real life scenes including children, old people, and still life is appreciative and something beyond understanding.

Prafull Sawant, 1979 | Watercolor painter

Prafull Sawant has won 42 international awards from across the world for his watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings.

He was the first and the only artist from India to win the 148th International Exhibition of American Watercolor Society award held in New York (2015).

Prafull B. Sawant was born at Nasik, India.

He has long been considered one of the foremost Realistic artists in the world.

He is best known for his Plain Air atmospheric landscapes that captures the light to create the mood and space of the scene.

Anthony de Mello: "La vita è quella cosa che ci accade mentre siamo occupati a fare altri progetti"

• "La vita è quella cosa che ci accade mentre siamo occupati a fare altri progetti. Siamo intenti a far colpo sugli altri. Siamo indaffarati per vincere le olimpiadi, per avere successo. E la vita ci scivola via dalle mani".

• "Nel momento in cui trasformi un bambino nella fotocopia di un altro individuo, tu calpesti e spegni la scintilla di originalità con cui è venuto al mondo".

• "La solitudine non si cura con la compagnia umana. La solitudine si cura attraverso il contatto con la realtà".

Paige Bradley | Expansion Third Life welectricity

Mahatma Gandhi: "Occhio per occhio ed il mondo diventa cieco"!

• Sii il cambiamento che vuoi vedere nel mondo.

• Be the change you wish to see in the world.

• Occhio per occhio e il mondo diventa cieco.

• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

• Le pagine della storia del mondo sono tutte lordate dai sanguinosi racconti delle guerre di religione. Solo con la purezza e le buone azioni dei seguaci si può difendere la religione, mai con la contrapposizione a chi professa altre fedi.

Igor Zenin

Hemen Majumdar (India, 1894-1948)

Hemendranath Majumdar was an Indian painter who lived in Bengal. In 2002, there was a huge uproar when his painting was stolen and found with an art dealer.

His birthplace Kishoreganj now belongs to Bangladesh.

In 1911 he decorated the gates to welcome King George V, on his visit to India.

He was one of the founding members of Indian Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata in 1919 along with Jogeshchandra Seal, Jamini Roy, Bhabani Charan Law and Atul Bose.

He remained a celebrated artist during his lifetime and has been invited by many rulers to draw their portraits and also gave him the position of court artist.

Pramod Kurlekar, 1978 | Figurative painter

Born in Satara, Pramod Kurlekar is an professional artist - internationally acclaimed artist from India. He earned a graduate diploma in Art from Kalavishwa Mahavidhyalaya Sangli in the year 2000 with first class.

He had a distinguished sense of color and creativity in his early years. His studies at an art school helped to mold the true artist in him. He has participated in several art events. He took part in a two year fine arts residential program under the great artist Shri. Vasudeo Kamat.

He has received several scholarships during the course of his study. Pramod Kurlekar paintings mainly portrays female subjects and children.

Rabindranath Tagore / Pol Ledent | Flower quotes

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower".

"Strappando i suoi petali, non raccogli la bellezza del fiore".

"Il fiore si nasconde nell'erba, ma il vento sparge il suo profumo..."

Rabindranath Tagore / Dorian Florez

"Il Grande cammina con il Piccolo. Il mediocre si tiene a distanza... "

"The Great walks with the Small without fear. The Middling keep aloof... "

"Ogni bambino che nasce ci ricorda che Dio non è ancora stanco degli uomini".

B. Prabha (1933-2001) | Abstract / Figurative painter

B. Prabha was a major Indian artist who worked mainly in oil, in an instantly recognizable style. She is best known for graceful elongated figures of pensive rural women, with each canvas in a single dominant color. By the time of her death, her work had been shown in over 50 exhibitions, and is in some important collections, including India's National Gallery of Modern Art.

Prabha started working at a time when India had few women artists. She was deeply inspired by the work of seminal modernist Amrita Shergil. Prabha was moved by the lives of rural women, and over time, they became the main theme of her work.

Asit Kumar Patnaik, 1968 | Figurative painter

Asit Kumar Patnaik, Indian painter, was born in Orissa. A National Scholar and MFA topper from BHU, he has received several provincial and national awards, the latest being a grand felicitation from the Government College of Art and Crafts, his alma mater in Khallikote, Orissa.

A semi-realistic figurative painter, Patnaik has enjoyed much critical acclaim and popular appreciation over the past few years.

Sekhar Roy, 1973 | Figurative painter

Life is a river, starts from the hilly area, it flows down on plain, collecting the stones, soils and some dirt, making all to fertilizing others but burden for itself.

Sometimes it gets fresh water from rain or by any other small stream, which makes the river strong and powerful.

His life is also the same; it started on 17th August 1973. It was not so smooth for him in his childhood days due to some political and socio economic reasons.

Peace quotes / Frasi sulla pace

• "Occhio per occhio e il mondo diventa cieco"!
• "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"!

Mahatma Gandhi

• "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word".

• "Mi rifiuto di accettare il punto di vista secondo cui l’umanità è così tragicamente legata alla mezzanotte senza stelle del razzismo e della guerra e che la luminosa alba della pace e della fratellanza non potrà mai diventare una realtà... credo che la verità disarmata e l’amore avranno l’ultima parola".

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "The purpose of all wars, is peace".
• "Lo scopo di tutte le guerre è la pace".

Sant'Agostino

• "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
• "La pace non può essere mantenuta con la forza; può essere raggiunto solo attraverso la comprensione". 

Albert Einstein

• "While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart".
• "Mentre proclami la pace con le tue labbra, fai attenzione ad averla ancora più pienamente nel tuo cuore".

Francesco d'Assisi