"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
Joseph Conrad
Alessandro Cinque b 1988📷
Alpaqueros, Orooesa, Peru
#PhotographyIsArt
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
Joseph Conrad
Alessandro Cinque b 1988📷
Alpaqueros, Orooesa, Peru
#PhotographyIsArt
"I had the feeling that
there was a dimension
of reality that had not
been dealt with in art: the
dimension of ugliness.”
Otto Dix Metropolis 1928
#NatiOggi
"I had the feeling that
there was a dimension
of reality that had not
been dealt with in art: the
dimension of ugliness.”
Otto Dix Metropolis 1928
#NatiOggi
M.Favre 🖼
M.Favre 🖼
"Today, I look at this vast and eclectic collection of women as an expression of my deeper perception of femininity : strong, independent, sensual and free."
Malika Favre b 1982 The Awakening
#NatiOggi
#WomenArtists
"Today, I look at this vast and eclectic collection of women as an expression of my deeper perception of femininity : strong, independent, sensual and free."
Malika Favre b 1982 The Awakening
#NatiOggi
#WomenArtists
"Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air."
Louisa May Alcott
#NatiOggi
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Death and the Maiden, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
"Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air."
Louisa May Alcott
#NatiOggi
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Death and the Maiden, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
Stefan Zweig
#NatiOggi
Lotte Laserstein ( 1898-1992 ) Evening Over Potsdam 1930
#WomenArtists
#NatiOggi
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
Stefan Zweig
#NatiOggi
Lotte Laserstein ( 1898-1992 ) Evening Over Potsdam 1930
#WomenArtists
#NatiOggi
🥂🐈🥂Happy Birthday🥂🐈🥂
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
CAT MASTER
"The reason why I so much enjoy being friends with cats is that they have two different characters: a wild side and a domestic side. This is what makes them interesting... A cat's a wild animal, and I like that."
🥂🐈🥂Happy Birthday🥂🐈🥂
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
CAT MASTER
"The reason why I so much enjoy being friends with cats is that they have two different characters: a wild side and a domestic side. This is what makes them interesting... A cat's a wild animal, and I like that."
"We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation."
Guy de Maupassant
Maurice Denis ( 1870-1943 ) The Crown of Daisies 1905
"We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation."
Guy de Maupassant
Maurice Denis ( 1870-1943 ) The Crown of Daisies 1905
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Ball at Moulin Rouge (detail) 1889
#NatiOggi
Moulin Rouge/Cancan/Offenbach
youtu.be/Y7vV9xwgtKg?...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Ball at Moulin Rouge (detail) 1889
#NatiOggi
Moulin Rouge/Cancan/Offenbach
youtu.be/Y7vV9xwgtKg?...
"The journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single step."
Lao Tzu
Erté ( Romain de Tirtoff ) ( 1892-1990 ) 🖼
#NatiOggi
"The journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single step."
Lao Tzu
Erté ( Romain de Tirtoff ) ( 1892-1990 ) 🖼
#NatiOggi
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without it, you can't practice any other
virtue consistently."
Maya Angelou
Édouard Manet ( 1823-1882 ) Nana 1877
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without it, you can't practice any other
virtue consistently."
Maya Angelou
Édouard Manet ( 1823-1882 ) Nana 1877
Le temps menaçant (Threatening Weather)
René Magritte (1898–1967)
National Galleries of Scotland: Modern
Le temps menaçant (Threatening Weather)
René Magritte (1898–1967)
National Galleries of Scotland: Modern
René Magritte
"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
Le Double Secret 1927
René Magritte
"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
Le Double Secret 1927
"There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."
Rudyard Kipling
Paula Modersohn-Becker ( 1876-1907 ) Girl's Head in Front of a Window 1902
OTD
#WomenArtists
"There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."
Rudyard Kipling
Paula Modersohn-Becker ( 1876-1907 ) Girl's Head in Front of a Window 1902
OTD
#WomenArtists
"Art has always had the same function: to reflect society alongside developments in religion, politics, economy, social organization”
Michelangelo Pistoletto b 1933 🖼
"Art has always had the same function: to reflect society alongside developments in religion, politics, economy, social organization”
Michelangelo Pistoletto b 1933 🖼
"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude."
Marcel Marceau
Man Ray ( 1890-1976 ) Mime
OTD
"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude."
Marcel Marceau
Man Ray ( 1890-1976 ) Mime
OTD
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
Paulo Coelho
Jack Vettriano ( 1951-2025 ) Summer Days Triptych 1992
#NatiOggi
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
Paulo Coelho
Jack Vettriano ( 1951-2025 ) Summer Days Triptych 1992
#NatiOggi
"Kindness begins with the understanding
that we all struggle."
Charles Glassman
Sofonisba Anguissola The Chess Game 1555
#NatiOggi
#WomenArtists
"Kindness begins with the understanding
that we all struggle."
Charles Glassman
Sofonisba Anguissola The Chess Game 1555
#NatiOggi
#WomenArtists
🐈🐈⬛🐈Cat lover extraordinaire🐈🐈⬛🐈
🐈🐈⬛🐈Cat lover extraordinaire🐈🐈⬛🐈
Georgia O'Keefe
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for."
Black Hills II 1944
Georgia O'Keefe
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for."
Black Hills II 1944
🌻CLAUDE MONET🌻
"Everyone discusses my art and pretends
to understand, as if it were necessary to
understand, when it is simply necessary
to love."
Self-portrait in his Studio 1884
🌻CLAUDE MONET🌻
"Everyone discusses my art and pretends
to understand, as if it were necessary to
understand, when it is simply necessary
to love."
Self-portrait in his Studio 1884