Vincent van Gogh | Le pont de Trinquetaille, 1888

The fifteen months that Van Gogh spent at Arles in 1888-1889 represent a pivotal moment in his career, "the zenith, the climax, the greatest flowering of Van Gogh's decade of artistic activity", according to Ronald Pickvance.

Freed from the pressures of urban life and inspired by the brilliant Provençal light, the artist integrated the results of months of experimentation and produced one modern masterpiece after another. With its bold composition and expressive palette, "Le pont de Trinquetaille" epitomizes his mature style.

Anthony Hopkins: "Lascia andare le persone che non sono pronte ad amarti"..

"Let go the people who are not prepared to love you. This is the hardest thing you will have to do in your life and it will also be the most important thing. Stop having hard conversations with people who don't want change.

Stop showing up for people who have no interest in your presence. I know your instinct is to do everything to earn the appreciation of those around you, but it's a boost that steals your time, energy, mental and physical health".

Marc Chagall | La Promenade, 1917

Rose Barton RWS (1856-1929) | Watercolor painter

Rose Mary Barton RWS was an Anglo-Irish artist; a watercolourist who painted landscape, street scenes, gardens, child portraiture and illustrations of the townscape of Britain and Ireland.

Barton exhibited with a number of different painting societies, most notably the Watercolour Society of Ireland (WCSI), the Royal Academy (RA), the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS).

Wassily Kandinsky | V - The psychological working of color

Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910

Part II: About painting

To let the eye stray over a palette, splashed with many colours, produces a dual result. In the first place one receives a PURELY PHYSICAL IMPRESSION, one of pleasure and contentment at the varied and beautiful colours.

The eye is either warmed or else soothed and cooled. But these physical sensations can only be of short duration.

They are merely superficial and leave no lasting impression, for the soul is unaffected. But although the effect of the colours is forgotten when the eye is turned away, the superficial impression of varied colour may be the starting point of a whole chain of related sensations.

On the average man only the impressions caused by very familiar objects, will be purely superficial.

Wassily Kandinsky | Roses, 1993

Carlo Bossoli | Orientalist painter

Carlo Bossoli (6 December 1815, in Lugano - 1 August 1884, in Turin) was a Swiss-born Italian painter and lithographer, who spent his early career in Russia. He is best known for historical scenes from the Risorgimento.

His father was a stonemason of Italian origin, working in Switzerland. In 1820, his family moved to accept work in Odessa.

Until 1826, he studied with the Capuchins. After graduating, he worked in a shop that sold antiquarian books and prints. It was there that he began to draw and sketch.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder | Baroque painter

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621) was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer.

He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre.

He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.

Frederick Vezin (1859-1933)

Frederick Vezin also Fred or Frederik was an American-born German painter, engraver and lithographer.

His family originally came from Saint-Florentin, Yonne in France. According to Richard Böger, Pierre Vezin (1654-1727) was forced to flee after he gave assistance to the Huguenots, even though he was a Catholic.

He settled down in Hanover as a viola player. For two generations, the Vezin family lived in Hanover and Osnabrück.

In 1813, Charles Henri / Carl Heinrich Vezin (1782-1853) emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia.

Konstantin Razumov, 1974 | Impressionist painter

Born in Moscow, Konstantin Razumov / Константин Разумов studied at the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where his historical paintings achieved great acclaim.

Razumov is a brilliant impressionist painter and has painted all kinds of subjects, from figures to landscapes, young ballerinas, children and charming russian ladies in gardens and meadows.

His bright colours, the smoothness of the skin in his figures, the expressive features of his characters, distinguish his paintings.