#Photography, Fernand Léger with Fernand Léger (1930) #art

‘Totally in Love.’ #Streetart #sculpture by Pieke Bergmans #art

‘Truth Hides Her Face’ And falsehood like a star all naked stands, But truth still hides her face in hood and veil. Is there no ship or shore my outstretched hands May grasp, to save me from this malicious sea? ~ Abul Al-Maʿarri (973–1057) #Sculpture by Ivan Martos, 1754-1835.

‘Zapatistas,’ ‘Vendedora de Alcatraces,’ ‘Dogwood Blossom’ & ‘Head of a Nun.’ #Painting by Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1871-1946) #art

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)... #Drawing by Federico García Lorca, 1924.

Optimist Kill off mankind, And give the Earth a chance! Nature might find In her inheritance The seedlings of a race Less infinitely base. ~ Aleister Crowley, 1875-1947 #Painting, Aleister Crowley by Yuzuf Lisboa.

‘Une petite fille porte deux baguettes de pain français, Paris.’ #Photography by Unknown (1957) #Paris

#Streetart by Corone in #Frankfurt, Germany #art

“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now!” ~ Man Ray (1890-1976) #Drawing, ‘Silhouette,’ by Man Ray, 1916.

‘March Mist.’ #Painting by Debra Tate-Sears (b. 1951) #art

#Photography, #streetart in #Brussels, Belgium by Tom Frantzen #art #sculpture

#Painting by Victor Koulbak (b. 1946) #art

“When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves.” ~ Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) #Photography, 1935.

#Sculpture by Rowan Gillespie #art

‘Forms of murmuration.’ #Photography by Daniel Dencescu #art

‘Little Vessie Owens.’ #Painting by James McBey (1883 – 1959) #art

”The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.” ~ Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) #Photography, André Kertész, ‘Boy Holding Puppy,’ 1928.

‘An Unidentified Man,’ ‘Portrait of a Lady, Anne Boleyn’ & ‘Portrait of Charles de Solier, Comte de Morette.’ Chalk #drawing by Hans Holbein The Younger (1497-1543) #art

Barry Lopez (1945 - 2020), ‘Arctic Dreams’... #Photography by Andy Ilachinski.

Edward Weston (1886 - 1958)... #Photography, ‘Toadstool’ by Edward Weston, 1931.

The Dhammapada (2nd century BC)... #Sculpture

Green alabaster Mask, State of Puebla, #Mexico (6th-9th century) #art #sculpture

#Streetart by Ricardo Romero in Valdastillas, #Spain #art

#Painting by Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865-1915) #art

#Photography by Thomas Vijayan #art

#Photography by Souichi Furusho #art

A rare Late Caddo “head pot” from southwestern #Arkansas. The Caddo master potter who made this piece obviously copied a typical Mississippian head pot, but decorated with Caddo style engraving rather than painting. The engraved designs may mimic facial tattooing (c. 1400-1550) #art #sculpture

Plato c. 427 BC-347 BC)... #Painting, ‘The School of Athens,’ by Rafael, c. 1509-1511.

“You cannot live without establishing an equilibrium between the inner and outer.” ~ Paul Auster (1947-2024) #Painting, ‘Airborne’ by Andrew Wyeth, 1996.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. ~ William Butler Yeats, ‘The Collected Poems’ (1933) #Art by Stefan Keller.

Variegated Fairywren (Malurus lamberti), SE Australia. #Photography by Ruben Montero #Australia

#Painting by Damilola Ilori #art

#Photography by Bruno Sassarone #art #Paris

‘Portrait,’ ‘Never Again’ & ‘Profile.’ #Painting by Aaron Westerberg #art

#Painting & #drawing by Felice Casorati (1883-1963) #art

#Sculpture, Ife terracotta heads, #Nigeria (c. 12th-15th century) #art #Yoruba

Mary Oliver, ‘The Sun’ (1992)... #Photography by Jason Guenzel and Andrew McCarthy.

Nipun Mehta, ‘Paths are made for walking’ (rural #India)... #Painting, ‘Drought’ by Arun Kumar Mishra.

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows. ~ Native American Proverb #Painting, ‘Peak Moment’ by John Nieto (1936 – 2018).

‘Flowers.’ #Photography by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) #art

Roman marble #sculpture of a pair of dogs (2nd century AD) #art #Rome

‘Lying Low.’ #Painting by Whyn Lewis #art

‘The Encounter.’ #Painting by M. C. Escher (1944) #art

‘The Drinkers.’ #Painting by Vincent van Gogh (1890) #art

#Photography, Simone Segouin, 18 year old French Résistance fighter, during the liberation of Paris, 19 August, 1944 #Paris

#Painting by Franz von Stuck (1920) #art

“Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of making sacrifices for it.” ~ Du Mu (803-852) #Painting by Laurie Steen.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre. ~ Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’ #Painting (detail) John Everett Millais, ‘Ophelia,’ 1851.

Pale is the colour of existence.. here in this city, let the fallen ones remain... to paint a world to be in. #Poetry & #photography by Thymournia #art #Iran

#Sculpture, Mask of the Kwele people, Gabon or Republic of the Congo (19th century) #art #Africa