Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): The Origin of the World (L'Origine du monde, 1866) Courbet regularly painted female nudes, sometimes in a frankly libertine vein… But in The Origin of the World he went to lengths of daring and frankness which gave his painting its peculiar fascination… Such…

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): Sleep (1866) This work shows Courbet's interest in an erotic Realism that became prevalent in his later work… Raw eroticism is delivered without aid of cupids or mythological justification of any kind, making this work vulgar to those with the prevailing taste of the…

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890): Cafe Terrace At Night (1888) here you have a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this surrounding the illuminated area colors itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green… Cafe Terrace at Night was one of the first…

Joan Miró (1893-1983): The Tilled Field (1923-24) is an expression of Miro’s view of his farm where he grew up... His interest in art as well as animals is present throughout the piece. There are bright colors, cartoon-looking animals and imaginative shapes. Miro also painted flags on this painting…

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul... Wassily Kandinsky (1896-1944): Merry Structure (1926)

I need a starry night… „Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890): The Starry Night (1889)

„I enjoyed painting flowers, not bouquets, but a single flower… I too find flowers beautiful in their exterior beauty… yet there is hidden within a deeper beauty…” Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian (1872-1944): Chrysanthemum (1906)

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love… Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (1887-1985): The Three Candles (c.1938-40)

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential… Composition VII,: Kandinsky's masterpiece, without doubt it is the acme of…

Karácsony készűl, emberek! Szépek és tiszták legyetek! Súroljátok föl lelketek, csillogtassátok kedvetek, legyetek ujra gyermekek hogy emberek lehessetek! Wass Albert Carlo Maratta (1625-1713): Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) (c.1650)

"Jaj, a gyerekkor mily tündéri kor volt: egy ködbe olvadt álom és való, ha hullt a hó az égből, porcukor volt, s a porcukor az abroszon a hó." Kosztolányi Dezső Anna Mary Robertson (1860-1961): Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey (1943)

"Furcsa társ a magány. Amink van, megoszthatatlanná válik. Amink hiányzik, kétszeresen hiányzik." Illés Endre

„Az ősz egy második tavasz, amikor minden levél virággá változik.” Albert Camus (Peder Mørk Mønsted: Charlottenlund Forest, 1908)