Maya Angelou | Quotes / Aforismi

Roberto Kusterle (Gorizia, 1948) Fotografo italiano

• Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
• Success is loving life and daring to live it.
• There is no failure as long as you learn from your experience, continue to work, and continue to press on for success.
• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
• When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
• If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Małgorzata Chodakowska, 1965 | Figurative sculptor

Polish artist Małgorzata Chodakowska was born in Lodz, Poland.

1980 - Art School Lodz.

1985 - Sculpture studies with Prof. Jan Kucz, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland.

1988 - Sculpture studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

1991 - Diploma thesis with Prof. Bruno Gironkoli, master student.

Since 1991, freelance sculptor in Dresden.

Dương Quốc Định, 1967

The work of the Vietnamese artist Dương Quốc Định has won many awards including, gold medals and trophies at the 68th International Photographic Salon of Japan; the 61st Hong Kong International Photography Festival; the International Federation of Art Photographers (FIAP) competition; the 7th Giuliano Carrara, and many others held in India, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Argentina, Spain and Italy.

Colors Quotes

Vincent van Gogh

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance

I am crazy about two colors: carmine and cobalt. Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing so beautiful for creating atmosphere. Carmine is as warm and lively as wine... the same with emerald green.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

Eliot Hodgkin | Modern Still Life painter

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) was an British painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.

Although he began with oil painting, most of his best known works were highly detailed still lifes executed in tempera.

Curwen Eliot Hodgkin was born on 19 June 1905, the only son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin and of his wife Alice Jane (née Brooke). The Hodgkins were a Quaker family and were related to Roger Fry. Eliot, a cousin of the abstract painter Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) was educated at Harrow School from 1919-1923.

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius | Surrealist / Digital photographer

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius is an artist from Lithuania. He creates really unusual and attractive shots in the sphere of digital art. His photos are so simple and at the same time so incredibly thought-provoking.

Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Ballet dancers

Stephen Pan 潘仲武 is an extremely versatile artist n the classic European oil painting tradition.

His singular artistic expression is easily recognized in his sublimely elegant and serene paintings.

Since 1987 he has focused primarily on original figurative oil paintings on canvas.

In spite of his close relationship with formal Chinese traditions in art, Pan fell in love with the paintings of renaissance and French impressionist periods.

Giuseppe Cacciapuoti, 1969 | Figurative /Seascape painter

Giuseppe Cacciapuoti, Neapolitan -Italian painter, was born in Pozzuoli. The range of his interests extremely wide. He paints portraits, still lifes, landscapes and seascapes.

Cacciapuoti studied at the Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli where today he is a full time lecturer.

Cacciapuoti gives the viewer a pleasant vision of beauty and seduction. Cacciapuoti’s paintings and skillful work of color with show lifelike expressions and attitudes. His talent on a canvas could bring an environment to life and the sea welcoming the boat floating above.

His works can be found in private and public collections all over the world.