"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences." ~ Virginia Woolf 'Autumn, collecting firewood' (1915) 🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

Vincent van Gogh : L'Allée des Alyscamps, 1888 A pair of paintings ("pendants") by van Gogh. Painted in Arles, France, it depicts autumnal scenes in the Alyscamps, an ancient Roman necropolis in Arles which is lined with poplars and stone sarcophagi.

'Harvest Fox Spirit' (messenger of Inari, kami of the crops) - Shoson Ohara, ca. 1910. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

City, 1913 by Avant Garde painter Alexandra Exter #WomensArt

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." ~ Jean Cocteau image: Charles Robinson - The Black Cat Holiday, 1905

Gustav Klimt : Lady with a Fan, 1917-18 Oil on canvas 100.2 × 100.2 cm | 39.4 × 39.4 in

In times of darkness keep sowing the seeds of goodness. 》Vincent van Gogh

Suchitra Bhosle ~ - Shiva Shakti - 2017 Oil.

Amrita Sher-Gil, Little Girl in Blue, 1934 Indian modernist painter #WomensArt

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Book cover #art

Pen and ink drawing by US poet Sylvia Plath #WomensArt

#Drawing by Shinji Ihara #art

Japanese artist Uemura Shōen, 'Woman Waiting for The Moon to Rise', 1944 #WomensArt

Let it be a solace that you have the bravery to go where the beautiful is to be found. 🎨 John Henry Twachtman

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ~ Victor Hugo, ‘Les Misérables’ (1862) #Photography, Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny, just outside Paris.

#Painting by Hans Heyerdahl (1857-1913) #art

‘Girl in the Sunlight,’ (1888), ‘Mika Morozov’ (1901) & ‘Portrait of Henrietta Girshman’ (1904). #Painting by Valentin Serov #art

“It is a famine that asks ‘but what did you do?’ A famine that will and must haunt us all,” said UN aid chief Tom Fletcher. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest on the UN-backed report declaring famine in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign continues: zeteo.com/p/famine-gaz...

"We have been warning about this for 22 months now.. this could have been prevented.. mothers are in tears, they are watching their children die & there is nothing that they can do about it" Tess Ingram from UNICEF speaking from Gaza on famine being declared there

One day to the next, 2020 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

Haruki Murakami, 'Kafka on the Shore' (2002)... #Painting, Vincent Van Gogh, ‘The Starry Night’ (1889).

"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well—she exists for no other end. Do not resist her." ~ Henry David Thoreau Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) 🎨 Vincent Van Gogh

When people ask “why is there famine in Gaza now?” Here’s why: •Gaza’s farmland has been bulldozed. •Fishermen are shot at sea. •Bakeries are bombed. •Aid trucks are blocked. •Water systems destroyed. •Relief workers assassinated. This isn’t new, it’s escalated.

A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is always ambiguous. A dream never says "you ought" or "this is the truth." It presents an image and it is up to us to draw conclusions.~CG Jung

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in battle in 1914 profoundly affected the artist, who expressed her grief by creating many prints on the theme of mothers protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

‘Sunday.’ #Painting by Jacob Bratland (1859-1906) #art #Norway

Good night 🌙 “If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.” “We become aware of the void as we fill it.” - Antonio Porchia Be kind.

Black Bear Moon, 2018 Aquatint etching, by Julia Lucey US artist and printmaker #WomensArt

“Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.” ~ Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 – 1725) Chikamatsu Monzaemon was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theatre that later came to be known as bunraku, & the live-actor drama, kabuki. #drawing #art

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves. It is a tormenting tension and it must be borne, but the choice is clear. – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)... #Photography

Good night 🌙 “There are so many things we’ve been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren’t you.” — Edward Gorey Be kind.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ~ Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) #Photography, Edouard Boubat, ‘Parc de Sceaux, cherry trees.’

Stage four is usually spend several days recuperating in a warm, dark room

All social interaction/events follow three stages for me Stage 1: I agree to the social event (or possibly even suggest the social event) Stage 2: I dread the social event as if I'm to be torn apart by wolves. Stage 3: I enjoy the social event

The word suffer in its original sense means 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸. So to suffer creatively is to allow what is, to stop fighting it, and instead to affirm your life. Creative suffering is allowing what is and saying "𝘺𝘦𝘴!" Such experience is redemptive in that it leads to healing & self-knowledge.~RA Johnson

"We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms" Stephen Covey Multidimensional Vision, from my Window #BeachPhotography

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination. #HealthForAll

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past. Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.

#Streetart by Giulio Giustini in #Rome #art