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David Shterenberg | Avant-Garde painter

David Petrovich Shterenberg / Давид Петрович Штеренберг (1881-1948) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter and graphic artist.
He was born to a Jewish family in Zhitomir, Ukraine.
After studying art in Odessa, in 1906 he moved to Paris where he studied in the Académie Vitti in Montparnasse where he was taught, among others, by the painter Kees van Dongen.
He lived in “La Ruche” where, at one time or other, there also lived Modigliani, Chagall and other artists.


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Leonardo da Vinci | Qual è di maggior danno alla specie umana, o perder l'occhio o l'orecchio..

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Maggior danno ricevono gli animali per la perdita del vedere che dell'udire, per piú cagioni; e prima, che mediante il vedere il cibo è ritrovato, donde si deve nutrire, il quale è necessario a tutti gli animali.
Il secondo, che per il vedere si comprende il bello delle cose create, massime delle cose che inducono all'amore, nel quale il cieco nato non può pigliare per l'udito, perché mai non ebbe notizia che cosa fosse bellezza di alcuna cosa.

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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
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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.


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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.