" I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being" Anksitet, dir. by Ingmar Bergman, as quoted by Mikko Kuorinki in Wall Piece with 200 Letters.

Untitled (Match-Woman I,Femme Aux Allumettes ) 1920. Francis Picabia. Oil on canvas with wooden match sticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Acute Calm Pink, 1924. Wassily Kandinsky. Oil on board.

Sunflower, by Consuelo Kanaga, 1942.

Umbrella Boy, Italy, by Bill Perlmutter, 1955.

Bertrand Sirven - sir20.

“People who make a difference do not die alone. Something dies in everyone who was affected by them.” Daniel Kahneman.

Andrew Cranston (British, 1969), A house is not a home, 2020. Oil and distemper on hardback book cover, 25 × 22.5 cm.

“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.” Viktor Frankl.

London, by Robert Frank, 1951.

Andrew Graves.

Napoli. Gianni Berengo Gardin, 1960.

Kees Scherer Christmas in Amsterdam 1950-1955.

Totem 2.003 (2014). Lori Fox. Watercolor,Graphite.

“connections”, 2016 by Norman Engel.

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” Erich Fromm.

Istanbul. Ara Güler, 1955.

Coney Island, by Sidney Kerner, 1939.

Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris, by Maurice Zalewski, 1950.

Anne Wiazemsky in Wind from the East / Le Vent D'est (1970) directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin (Groupe Dziga Vertov)

Solitudes. © Juan Manuel Sáenz de Santa María, 2017.

Boat, Connemara, 1951. Lucian Freud, (1922 - 2011). Pen, black ink and tempera, with touches of white heightening, on thin Whatman paper.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. Marcel Proust

Herbert List, Vénézuela 1957 .

“You don’t understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.” Clarice Lispector, “Acqua Viva”

Martin Munkacsi. Walking in the rain. 1920s

Coal Mine “Zeche Katharina” (1954-59) in Essen, Germany, by Fritz Schupp. Photo by Albert Renger-Patzsch.

“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it.” Herman Hesse, Siddhartha .

Beautiful peonies.

Pierre Bonnard, 1927 vers le cannet sous la neige.

“Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.” Arvo Pärt, the Sound of Spirit.

Wu Guanzhong. Pomagranate.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies.

Close Up, 2018. Frank Schott.

“Nous ne pouvons vivre que dans l’entrouvert, exactement sur la ligne hermétique de partage de l’ombre et de la lumière. Mais nous sommes irrésistiblement jetés en avant. Toute notre personne prête aide et vertige à cette poussée.” René Char, Les Matinaux, 1964

States of Mind.....

“I had to live awhile before I understood that a lot of things can only be said joking and not joking at the same time.” Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home.

“Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.” Umberto Eco.

Franco Fontana.

Sergio Larrain. Italy, Roma. 1959.

Dans l’amour, il n’y a pas de « si » il n’y a pas de condition. Je vous aime sans condition, sans justification. Je vous aime tel que vous êtes, et vous êtes libre d’être comme vous êtes. Don Miguel Ruiz.

Illustration by Koji Fukiya, 1935.

".... e noi avevamo vent'anni, e ogni cosa era al suo posto, avevamo un passato oscuro, un presente luminoso e una freccia ci indicava quale direzione prendere per andare incontro a quello che allora credevamo fosse il futuro." Almudena Grandes

Saul Leiter, Model Simone, for “Harper’s Bazaar”, 1959.

“Le seul alchimiste capable de tout changer en or est l’amour. L’unique sortilège contre la mort, la vieillesse, la vie routinière, c’est l’amour.” Anaïs Nin.

Gjon Mili’s cat, Blackie, looking at his portrait in a mural by Saul Steinberg in Mili’s studio, NY, 1947.

Melvin Sokolsky On The Seine, Paris 1963.

‘What do you do from morning to night?’ ‘I endure myself.’ Emil Cioran.

La famiglia Consolaro Girelli - Felice Casorati

«It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it, means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.» Peggy Guggenheim.