Pictori & Sculptori

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher)

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine. (Maurice Maeterlinck )

John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 — 10 February 1917) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter most famous for his paintings of female characters from mythology and literature. He belonged to the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

He was born in Rome to the painters William and Isabela Waterhouse, but when he was five the family moved to South Kensington, near the newly founded Victoria and Albert Museum. He studied painting under his father before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1870. His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton, and were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the Dudley Gallery.

CARAVAGGIO

Leonardo DaVinci – picturi si inventii

Leonardo da Vinci quotes:

“Art is never finished, only abandoned. “

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

” I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

Psyche and the Mystery of Cupid

She had not yet seen her destined husband. He came only in the hours of darkness and fled before the dawn of morning, but his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. She often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent. On the contrary, he charged her to make no attempt to see him, for it was his pleasure, for the best of reasons, to keep concealed. “Why should you wish to behold me?” he said; “have you any doubt of my love? Have you any wish ungratified? If you saw me, perhaps you would fear me, perhaps adore me, but all I ask of you is to love me. I would rather you would love me as an equal than adore me as a god.”

SALVADOR DALI

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. (Salvador Dali)

All quotes from video belongs to Salvador Dali

Constantin Brâncuşi

A beautiful metaphor for Brancusi’s sculptures “Whose luminous beauty is his legacy. I bid you farewell but your works remain exalted, pure, luminous, never so alive as today, and they will never cease to live” Georges A.Salles – Director to Museum (Paris)

Constantin Brancusi is sleeping at Montparnasse cemetery with his bones but his soul flying in the Universe. I am proud because I am born in the same day with you, Maestro!