Anne

“What is drawing?" Vincent van Gogh asked in an 1882 letter to his brother Theo. "How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How is one to get through that wall--since pounding at it is of no use? In my opinion one has to undermine that wall, filing through it steadily and patiently.”
― Maria Tsaneva, Van Gogh's Drawings

“107. To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“Everybody is trying to look like someone else, even to themselves. We’re just more honest about it.”
― J. Zachary Pike, Orconomics

“Giovanni Boccaccio, autore del Decameron, gli dedica un’intera novella, in cui non solo lo celebra come il più bravo pittore vivente, ma sottolinea la sua alacrità nelle risposte e la vivace intelligenza.”
― Roberta Dalessandro, Giotto