Sorrento Italy 2014 Martin Parr

Raoul Dufy (France, 1877–1953)

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it." Hannah Arendt, 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'

"Hope" by Daniel Gerhartz, oil on canvas

'Wild Flowers of Spring and Early Summer' Artist: Maurice de Sausmarez (for Odhams)

Lauren Zaknoun

Leigh Lambert 'Fishing with Grandad' Paintings of memories from the artists childhood

Edmund Charles Tarbell American artist "Josephine and Mercie" [the artist's wife and daughter], 1908

Ray Morimura (b. 1948) Japanese woodblock print artist "Cherry Blossoms in Yanaka, Ueno" woodblock print, 1994

Little Women (2019) Dir. Greta Gerwig

Claude Monet

'Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.' -Albert Einstein, advice to his son Eduard, February 5, 1930.

Saul Leiter

Kammer Castle on Lake Attersee Gustav Klimt

"The poetry of the earth is never dead." ~ John Keats Flower Meadow in the North 🎨 Harald Sohlberg (1905)

"The art of living is knowing how to enjoy a good meal, and then sleep deeply at night". Robert de Niro. Kaoru Yamada art

Never send a reader to clean out the attic. 📚 🎨James Gurney

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. -Sylvia Plath -GC Myers/The Richness of the Moment

Carpe Diem Jane Wormell

"Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself." - Sylvia Plath

New York City, 1966. Joel Meyerowitz 📸

Spring dreams illus. Garrett Price

Kona Bay - Nobu Fujiyama

Lovely still life oil on canvas titled 'Le compotier' in original frame. Signed J. Body (unknown artist). France 1970.

A farmer checks his sprinklers, Georgia, USA, 2017. 📷 Matt Black

Yes to this.

Inge Morath - Paris, 1958

'The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.' Clarice Lispector ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

“Good Morning", 2021 Marilyn Peeters

"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." Voltaire

Salvador Dalí Woman With Parrot

Vertigo Hitchcock 1958

As long as there's democracy there will be Jazz as nothing will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound... ~ Wynton Marsalis

Gary Cooper, the class.

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves." David Attenborough Born 100 years ago today

La Madeleine and Morris column. 1970. Paris

Ernest Cole - Riding the Train with Her Dog in NYC - 1970

Hippolyte Petitjean (1854-1929) - Landscape, watercolor on paper

"The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there." ~ Patti Smith, M Train Sachiko 📸

John Lennon, Chicago, Illinois, 1966. Photo by Harry Benson.

Annie Ovenden Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park

Jean Patchett West Hampton Beach New York 1954

"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing ... to find the place where all the beauty came from." ~ C.S. Lewis, 'Till We Have Faces' 🎨 Harald Slott-Møller (1913)

"Music is a weapon of the future." Fela Kuti

Detail from a fresco painting by Pietro Cavallini, 1289-1293, Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome ❤️‍🔥