“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely…” -Louisa May Alcott   Nico Jungman(1872-1935),Anglo-Dutch painter Mother and child   #painting #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art #arte #artwork #artlovers

“There is no other place on the planet with such a diverse range of landscapes contained inside such a small geographical space as Nepal.” ―Santosh Kalwar   Kevin Bubrisky Mangri village in Mugu district,Kathmandu,Nepal   #photography #photo #blackandwhite #foto #fotografia #art

“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.” -John Locke   Heinrich Vogeler(1872-1942),German painter Reverie   #painting #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow…” -Haruki Murakami,/After the Quake   Andrii Kateryniuk(1994-),Ukrainian painter based in Florence Through the Shadows #painting #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #art #arte #artwork #artlovers

“Gardens have deep meaning when they are created and managed to benefit other species, even other human…” -Benjamin Vogt/A New Garden Ethic   John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) In a Garden,Corfu,1909   #painting #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst

“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching,steadfast,knowing us in our light and dark moments,changing forever just as we do…” ―Tahereh Mafi   Quint Buchholz(1957-),German painter,illustrator Full moon   #painting #contemporaryart #art #arte

“I measure my loneliness by the daily descent of winter Sunbeams…” –Sataru Sato,Japanese poet   Fukutaro Terauchi(1891–1964),Japanese painter Winter Evening Town Scene   #painting #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“J'ai mis ma confiance et mon âme dans les fleurs. Fleurs occultes, fleurs de prémonition…” ― Paul Valéry   Ngoc Minh Ngo(1963-),Vietnamese photographer Florilegium   #artphotography #photography #photo #ArteYArt #artwork

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields,that it kisses them so gently?And then it covers them up snug with a white quilt;and says,’Go to sleep,darlings,till the summer comes again’…” -Lewis Carroll Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk(1782-1810) The Raampoortje in Amsterdam

“It was snowing with a fine-flaked desultoriness just sufficient to make the woodland grey, without ever achieving whiteness...” -Thomas Hardy/The Woodlanders   Elisabeth Hennum,Norwegian photographer Winter,Sagene,Oslo,2021   #artphotography #photo #blackandwhite #foto #art

“Aimons la neige ! Sinon, nous risquerions de briser notre équilibre poétique et d'oublier notre condition humaine…” -Francis Bossus/La Forteresse   Claude Monet(1840-1926) Le train dans la neige,1875   #painting #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #Sunday

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To seek joy in the saddest places. To watch. To try and understand. To pursue beauty to its lair….” -Arundhati Roy   Michele Palazzo(1968-),Architect,photographer based in New York Emerging from the Clouds,NY,2022

“Winter Light”I1963) is a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Gunnar Björnstrand,Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow It is considered,alongside“Through a Glass Darkly”and“The Silence”,to be part of a trilogy focusing on faith.

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember...” -Oliver Herford   Pieter Bruegel D.J.(1564-1638),Flemish painter Winterlandschaft,1631   #painting #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“Winter also can be a splendid season. Walking in a winter wonderland on a still,cold day can be refreshing,the silence of deep snow giving the lone hiker in woods or plain a sense of palpable solitude…” -Henry David Thoreau Gergana Balabanova(1994-),Bulgarian artist Winter II

“En hiver la terre pleure ;  Le soleil froid, pâle et doux,  Vient tard, et part de bonne heure,  Ennuyé du rendez-vous…” -Victor Hugo   Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Jour d’hiver,1886   #painting #peinture #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“Du mußt das Leben nicht verstehen, dann wird es werden wie ein Fest…” -Rainer Maria Rilke/Mir zur Feier    Marco Wilm,Berlin-based Fine Art Street Photographer Lost in Time   #artphotography #photography #photo #foto #ArteYArt #contemporaryart #artwork

“C'est l'hiver, les arbres sont en bois…” -Jules Renard/Journal    Peder Mørk Mønsted(1859-1941),Danish painter An Old Woman in the Forest Collecting Firewood, 1917   #painting #peinture #painter #peintre #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“Other sopranos only sing 'Vessi d'arte' in Tosca.Only Callas talks to God…” Terrence McNally   Maria Callas est la référence en matière d'opéra du XXe siècle. Elle a renouvelé le chant lyrique à tel point qu'aujourd'hui,on peut distinguer une époque avant et après Callas…

“If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence...” -Han Kang/Greek Lessons Nobel Prize in Literature(2024)   Kawase Hasui(1883-1957), Evening Snow at EdoRiver   #painting #peinture #painter #peintre #Malerei #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst