Paul Frederic Simon was born on this day in 1941, so today, 13 October 2020, he is 79 years old. “You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when?Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.” “Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.” “It’s actually very difficult to make… Read More Happy Birthday, Paul Simon
💛 Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. 💛 Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. 💛 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an… Read More Oscar Wilde on Art
Il 9 settembre 1501, il ventiseienne Michelangelo iniziò a lavorare al blocco di marmo da cui doveva trarre il celebre David, provando la durezza del blocco con qualche colpo di scalpello. La statua (alta 520 cm, incluso il basamento di 108 cm) era stata commissionata dalla corporazione Arte della Lana e dagli Operai del Duomo… Read More Il David di Michelangelo
VERSE 1 Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer’s day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land The lyrics refer to some… Read More “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” – 2.Analysis
Today would have been Man Ray’s 128th birthday. He was born in Philadelphia on August 27, 1890 , and died in France in 1976. This American surrealist photographer and painter spent most of his career in Paris. He said: “I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.” “I never knew what I was… Read More Man Ray
The Genius and the Crowd – 1909 – Yeghishe Tadevosyan IL GENIO DELLA MASSA c’è abbastanza perfidia, odio, violenza, assurdità nell’essere umano medio da poter rifornire qualsiasi esercito in qualsiasi giorno e i migliori nell’assassinio sono quelli che vi predicano contro e i migliori nell’odio sono quelli che predicano l’amore e i migliori… Read More The Genius of the Crowd (translation & analysis)
The Genius of The Crowd by Charles Bukowski there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best… Read More The Genius of the Crowd
International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September, on the feast of St. Jerome, to pay tribute to the work of translators and interpreters who try to make the world a slightly smaller place by breaking down language barriers. The patron saint of translators is St. Jerome, a Christian scholar and… Read More 30 September: International Translation Day
17 May 1510: Sandro Botticelli’s death Today we remember the death of one of our greatest artists, Sandro Botticelli, who died on 17 May 1510, in Florence Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, best known by his nickname Sandro Botticelli, was a very important Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Here are three of his… Read More 17 May 1510: Sandro Botticelli’s death
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