“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.

L'Union, Gilbert Garcin (2001)

Amedeo Modigliani, Ritratto di Lunia Czechowska con ventaglio, 1919.

"Forse un uomo e una donna sono più vicino l’uno all’altro quando non vivono insieme e sanno soltanto di esistere, quando sono riconoscenti l’uno all’altro solo perché esistono e perché l’uno sa che l’altro esiste. E alla loro felicità questo basta." Milan Kundera, “Amori ridicoli “

"La cosa migliore che possa capitarti è avere qualcuno al tuo fianco che non smette mai di cercarti, nemmeno quando ti perdi nei tuoi silenzi."

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung.

Cy Twombly - Rome, 1961.

"Adults follow paths. Children explore." Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. ph. Harold Feinstein, Father and Son By Water’s Edge, 1949.

“Art does not reproduce what is visible but rather makes it visible” Paul Klee. ph. at his home in Bern, Switzerland, 1939, Fripouille, Possenhofen, 1921, by Felix Klee.

Oskar Schlemmer, 1932. #Art, #Bauhaus #Stairway.

Wassily Kandinsky, Comets, 1938.

Alice Neel, Richard in the Era of Corporation, 1978–9.

Mimmo Jodice.

Hilma af Klint, Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 9, Old Age, 1907.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think. Michel Houellebecq.

Joan Mitchell, Sans Pierre, 1969. Oil on canvas, 102 ½ x 78 ½ inches (260.35 x 199.39 cm).

Wadada Leo Smith, Kosmic Music, 2008.

Elliott Erwitt, Spain, Madrid, Prado Museum, 1995.

Be softer with yourself. You are a breathing thing, A memory to someone, A home to a life. Nayyirah Waheed. ph. @henriique.

British Museum Underground Station, London. E.O. Hoppe, 1937.

© Nicolay Krusser.

Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b. 1962), Blue Flowers & Skulls, 2012. Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, 74.02 × 60.25 in (190 × 153 cm).

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it. Lao Tzu.

Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Laure d'Utruy.

C'est toujours la passion qui dévoile à une femme son caractère, c'est toujours dans l'amour et dans la douleur qu'elle atteint sa véritable mesure. Stefan Zweig. ph. Kurt Markus.

Prunus in bloom. artist Wim Visscher Gem. Techniek Afm. 54 x 74 cm Private collection.

Roy DeCarava, 1950.

Jerry Schatzberg, Frank Zappa, 1967.