“My life was a painting I’d been staring at upside down up until that moment.”

~ Kaveh Akbar, ‘Martyr.’

#Painting by Lotta Neime.

‘Mondnacht,’ ‘Halbakt eines Knaben mit Haarband’ & ‘Das Gefühl der Abhängigkeit.’ #Painting by Sascha Schneider (1870-1927) #art

‘Mudra S.’ #Photography by Tauba Auerbach (2019) #art

‘Stages of Self.’ #Sculpture by Margot Homan #art

Arundhati Roy, ‘The Cost of Living’ (1999)...

#Photography by Carlo Buldrini.

‘Balance,’ ‘Army’ & ‘Call.’ #Photography by Tommy Ingberg #art

“All of me knelt down. All of me bowed. Inside the chapel of myself, all of my candles lit.”

~ Niall Williams, ‘This is Happiness.’

#Painting by Jasmine Diez.

‘Self-Portrait’ (1935), ‘Rooftops and Pennants’ (1942) & ‘Wrigley’s’ (1937). #Painting by Charles Green Shaw #art

#Photography still, Edna Tichenor as Luna, in ‘The Bat Girl in London after Midnight’ (1927).

#Illustration, Saul Bass poster for Françoise Sagan’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ (1958) #art

‘Portrait of a Girl.’ #Painting by Paula Modersohn-Becker (1905) #art

I had ceased to ask that terrible question – what is the good of it all? Now it seemed quite plain & simple: the proper object of life was happiness, & I promised myself much happiness ahead. It seemed as if our gloomy old house had suddenly become full of light and life.

Tolstoy (1859)

#Painting

Milan Kundera, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ (1984)...

#Painting, Gustave Courbet, ‘The Beach, Sunset,’ 1867.

Giant 16th-Century ‘Colossus,’ #Florence, Italy.

#Sculpture by Giambologna, a symbol of Italy’s rugged Appenine mountains. This mountain god, fittingly named Appennino has entire rooms hidden inside #art

#Photography by Marc Riboud, the Pentagon (1967).

‘Born to be wild.’ #Streetart by Jef in Aix-en-Provence, #France #art

“I read like the flame reads the wood.”

~ Alfred Döblin (1878-1957)

#Painting, Ada Thilén, ‘Girl Reading in a Landscape,’ 1896.

‘Noh,’ ‘Wabi,’ ‘Kassiki’ & ‘Ayutthaya.’ #Photography by Kenro Izu (b. 1949) #art

‘Portrait of Edmond Maitre.’ #Painting by Frederic Bazille (1869) #art

‘A Dark Pool.’ #Painting by Laura Knight (1918) #art

Mary Oliver (1935-2019)...

#Painting by JT Creates.

A Roman brick. #Photography via Scott Duff...

‘Les Jardins de Marqueyssac.’ #Photography by Olga Kovzik.

‘Girl sitting and boy with hat standing,’ ‘Gleaners’ & ‘Peasant family.’ #Painting by Rafael Zabaleta (1907-1960) #art

‘Sleet.’ #Painting by Igor Grabar (1905) #art

#Illustration by Jan Marcin Szancer (1902 – 1973) #art

“And so, with the ruin of all my hopes,
I sat there up in the tree throughout
the hours of darkness like a night-owl.”

~ Joseph Von Eichendorff, ‘Life of a Good-for-Nothing’ (1826)

#Illustration by Hiromi Nishizaka.

#Photography by Carmen Ayala #art

Lauren Elkin, ‘Flâneuse: Women Walk the City
in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London.’

#Painting, ‘Paris Street’ by Gustave Caillebotte (1877).

“Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe,
with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working
with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov, ‘Glory’ (1932)

#Sculpture, Earl Eyman, ‘The Trapeze toy,’ 1925.