Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), Untitled, 1985-86. Oilstick and crayon on paper, 41 ½ x 30 in.

"Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause." James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain.

John Gutmann, Kids reading Comics, San Francisco, 1938.

Aaron Siskind, NYC, Photo by Arnold Newman, 1976.

London, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955.

Texaco Station, Tremont Avenue and Dock St, Bronx, NY, by Berenice Abbott.

Robert Rauschenberg, Boston Symphony Orchestra 1881-1981, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1980-1981 [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York.

Robert Rauschenberg, Charms Against Harm [original art for Medicins du Monde poster], (inkjet dye transfer on paper), 1992 [© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY]

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.“ Henry David Thoreau.

Today I suddenly lost access to my account, promptly resolved by bluesky(super thank you) Gotcha. I take no pleasure in being right. Be wary of those who are deeply unwell and profoundly toxic. They lie even to themselves.

"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom." Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Love in the Time of Cholera.

Méret Oppenheim (Swiss/German 1913–1985) - Gesicht im Nachthimmel (Face in the Night Sky), Oil pastel on paper, 49 x 65 cm (1963).

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing." Michel Houellebecq.

François Dufrêne, Petit Bobino, (bottom of posters mounted on canvas), 1973.

Antoni Tàpies, Als mestres de Catalunya, (lithograph), 1974.

Orchard -collage

" 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.