“Love, if it is true,will awaken you to a festival of seasons. You walk through a desert and it becomes a meadow of roses. ”.-Jayita Bhattacharjee. Anna Billing(1849-1927),Swedish painter.Lush Green Summer Meadow-Dalarö,1885. #painting #painter #peinture #ArteYArt #art #arte

“Read. Read. Read.Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles…”.R.L.Stine,American novelist. Dave Cutler,American illustrator.When mega projects go wrong. #ArteYArt #artwork #illustration #drawing #imagination

“L'odeur de rose, faible,.grâce au vent léger d'été qui passe,.se mêle aux parfums qu'elle a mis…”.-Paul Verlaine/Les fêtes. Claude Monet(1840-1926).Champs de tulipes près de La Haye,1886.Musée d’Orsay. #painting #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think,speak,act,or assume responsibility.If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?”.Lu Xun. Li Zhensheng(1940-2020),Chinese photographer.Early Dawn in the Countryside Heilongjiang Province China,1964. #photo

“La question est celle-ci : d'où vient l'homme ? Où va l'homme ? Je la résous triomphalement en disant : l'homme va et vient dans la nuit…”.-Émile Zola . Eugène Galien-Laloue(1854–1941),peintre français.Les Grands Boulevards,Paris. #painting #peinture #ArteYArt #art #arte

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes. ”.— Jonathan Franzen. Tom Blood(1957-),American Artist.Table for Two. #ArteYArt #art #artlovers #artwork

“I suddenly realize that I live in constant fear of having to exist in a society where everyone is deceiving everyone else…”.-Willem Frederik Hermans. Gerard ter Borch(1617-1681),Dutch painter.The Letter,1660-65. #painting #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic,but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art.I know of nothing more astonishing or morewonderful than this transformation…”.-Maxim Gorky. Vladimir Lagrange,Russian photographer.Rural Scene,1960. #photo

“Barefoot in the Park” (1967) an American romantic comedy film directed by Gene Saks from a screenplay by .Neil Simon. Starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda . #cinema #movies

“I know there is no straight road. No straight road in this world. Only a giant labyrinth of intersecting crossroads…”.-Federico Garcia Lorca. Salvador Dalí(1904-1989),Spanish surrealist artist.Paysage avec Femme,1934. #painting #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers #Sunday

“The world had changed a great deal,but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn't actually changed at all…”.-Cho Nam-Joo/“Kim Ji-young, Born 1982”. Jungho Lee(1984-).Where the Crawdads sing,2019.(Cover illustration for Delia Owens’s novel)

“Viridiana” (1961) a Spanish-Mexican  film directed by Luis Buñuel. Starring Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal and Fernando Rey. The film was the co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. #cinema #movies

“Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. ”.-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). John William Waterhouse(1849-1917), English painter .The Soul of the Rose,1903. #painting #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst #artlovers

“Never before have the roofs of houses been as close together as they are today. And never before have people's hearts been as far apart as they are today…”.-Antonis Samarakis/Hope Wanted. Christos Lamprianidis,Greek photographer.Blind End. #artphotography #photography #photo

“It is perfectly true,as philosophers say,that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards…”.-Søren Kierkegaard. Andersen Brendekilde(1857-1942), Danish painter.The first anemones. #painting #ArteYArt #art #arte

“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. ” .-José Saramago/The Double. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004).Alentejo,Portugal,1955. #photography #photo #blackandwhite #foto

“The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either. ”.-Harry Mulisch/The Discovery of Heaven. Charley Toorop(1891-1955),Dutch painter.Old flowering apple tree

“The power of lies does notcome from the weakness of truth.Lies are organized,truth stands alone.Lies have traditions,your truth must be recreated every day. It must blossom anew every day like a dawn flower…”.-Yaşar Kemal. Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu,Turkish illustrator.Night Dream

“Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man. ”. -Marianne Moore/Complete Poems. Willard Leroy Metcalf(1858-1925),American painter.A Siff Breeze,1920. #painting #painter #peinture #ArteYArt #art #arte #Kunst

“If you care about something you have to protect it-If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love,you have to find the courage to live it…”.-John Irving/A Prayer for Owen Meany. Dane Shitagi(1972-),American artist.Swings by the water,Sausalito,California,. #photo #art