Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli never wed, and expressed a strong disliking to the idea of marriage, a prospect he claimed gave him nightmares.

The popular view is that he suffered from an unrequited love for Simonetta Vespucci , a married noblewoman. According to popular belief, she had served as the model for The Birth of Venus  and recurs throughout his paintings, despite the fact that she had died years earlier, in 1476. Botticelli asked that when he died, he be buried at her feet in the  Church of Ognissanti  in Florence. His wish was carried out when he died some 34 years later, in 1510.

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Quotes :

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Hajime Sorayama

Hajime Sorayama (空山 基 Sorayama Hajime, born February 22, 1947) is a Tokyo based japanese painter , best known for his precisely detailed, erotic, hand-painted and airbrushed  portrayals of women and of feminine, robots