‘One should never be cured of one’s passions.’ Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, 1964

My article, "Hooray for Public Art" https://t.co/7SLm5I2PP6 Where I discuss Jean-Michel Basquiat My photo from 2019 exhibit @Guggenheim #contemporaryart #amwriting

"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players" - from William Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It" "A Carnival Evening" (1886) by Henri Rousseau @philamuseum #quote #painting

"Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.' – Delia Owens, author "Where the Crawdads Sing" #quotes #Autumn #NaturePhotography * my photo

The majestic Wells Cathedral in all its splendor. The Scissor Arches you see were built in 1348. The cathedral’s central tower had been completed by 1313, but its weight caused foundation shifts. To prevent collapse, they designed the arches as a bracing system to

The Red Tapestry, by Jaime Corum 2011

Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and André Salmon in front of the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, 1916. #art #arts #finearts #painting

Tamara de #Lempicka - Portrait d'Ira P (1930).

November 5, 1996: Divers located the sunken ruins of ancient Alexandria, particularly the port, Cleopatra's palace, and parts of the city from around 323-30 BC.

Elle peint sa vie et elle vit sa peinture. Paul Valéry Berthe Morisot, artiste peintre francaise, une des grandes impressionistes de son époque.🎨 En hommage à mon amie Mery, peintre elle aussi, né un 6 novembre, partit il y a 6 ans à 48 ans. Elle aimait cette artiste!❤️

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare ~ Measure for Measure . Georges Cziffra ~ Chopin Fantasie 66 https://t.co/vyusB5YlUY . photo © niphisi .

‘The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.’ Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958 José Basso

‘Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquility and hypocritically in false refuges.’ Gilles Deleuze, Capitalisme et schizophrénie, 1972

‘Color, above all and perhaps even more than drawing, is a liberation.’ Henri Matisse, The Bay of Nice, 1918

‘One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.’ André Malraux, L’espoir (Man’s Hope), 1938

‘Night, which autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us.’ Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Le rideau cramoisi (The Crimson Curtain), 1951 Gérard Rondeau

‘Along his homeward path he came upon a deserted castle. (…) Yet to him it seemed: here I have lived forgotten years.’ Georg Trakl, Lied des Einsamen, Gedichte, 1913 Hohenwerfen Fortress, Medieval Mountaintop Castle, Austria

‘There are moments when life is open as a fan, and then it is fragile, insecure and too vast. In my statements and confessions I try to catch a glimpse of this totality…’ Pier Paolo Pasolini Letter to Silvana Mauri: Rome, February 10 1950

‘Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but als a contact between people — to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.’ Nickolas Muray Lover Frida Kahlo by Muray, New York 1939

Michel Perez - Aventures Siciliennes

Feipeng Nie - Decisive Moment