Time is not a single train,
moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.
-Claudio Magris
-Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916
Sun and a summer feeling are good for a change…flowers and birds—all the pretty things—light and lovely and nothing.
-Georgia O’Keeffe, letter to Jean Toomer
I would much rather spend my lunch exploring a bookstore than sitting in a café.
#TuesdayThoughts
Today’s find.
“Bookselling, compared to some other trades, is quite a new one.”
-The Book of Trades
George S. Appleton, 1851
Illustration by William Croome
She is like a porcelain doll;
if you break her,
you’ll find nothing inside.
📷Ruth Bernhard
#photography
You are gone.
You are of no importance
to the sun.
The sun rises in spite of you.
You are gone.
I rise in spite of you.
painting by Rockwell Kent
Into the Sun, 1919
Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow
-Langston Hughes, “Bouquet”
#poetry
André Derain
“Music”, 1904
#watercolor
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
-Roy Lichtenstein
📷Bill Ray
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1962
#photography #art
You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by.
-James Baldwin
Photos documenting the progress of the building of the Eiffel Tower, 1888-1889
There are no facts,
only interpretations.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Four versions of
"Loving Woman"/"Madonna"
by Edvard Munch
The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee.
Emily Dickinson, Letter to Lucretia Bullard, 1864
art: Jose Romussi