Members

Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's Writing Estate

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself

Charles Dickens

Dickens' Reading Room

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Mark Twain

Twain's Riverboat Office

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Claude Monet

Monet's Water Garden

I must have flowers, always, and always

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky's Concert Hall

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy

Frederic Chopin

Chopin's Piano Room

Simplicity is the final achievement -- after one has played a vast quantity of notes

Vincent Willem van Gogh

Van Gogh's Yellow House

I dream my painting and I paint my dream

Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven's Deaf Room

I shall seize fate by the throat. It will never wholly overcome me

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart's Piano Room

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love -- that is the soul of genius

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach's Organ Loft

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt's Light Studio

Choose only one master -- Nature

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio's Dark Room

Without light, there is no art -- and without darkness, there is no drama