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"I am what I seem, and if I don't seem what I am, an inexplicable mystery to myself, I am at odds with my ego."
Medardus in "The Devil's Elixir", by E.T.A. Hoffmann
illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag for a 1907 edition of "The Devil's Elixir" (tap)
"Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion."
Scott Nilsson
🎨 @lgvd
@ampomata Oh, he was a fascinating artist! Died too young (46!). Writer, composer, painter and draughtsman (see pics below). Author of "The Nutcracker" on which the ballet is based. I have a fascination for magical realism literature (e.g. The Golden Pot). Love his 📖
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.
Joni Mitchell, Woodstock
https://t.co/pqxtmimJbZ
watercolors by @lgvd
@aquaagnes Yes, an oil painting. Really beautiful. Apparently he particularly likes to paint foggy/rainy/snowy landscapes in all seasons. These are all photos of glicèes after his oils so the colors might be a bit more vivid.
"As for Mary, she was little more than a child when the angel came to her; she had not lost her child's creative acceptance of the realities moving on the other side of the everyday world."
Madeleine L'Engle, "Walking on Water..."
Domenico Beccafumi, 1545
"Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough..."
Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
"Magnolias" by @lgvd
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts move when the wind of the imagination is active, consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.
William Hurrell Mallock
art by @alicecgagnon1
(3 & 4 mixed media)
"Take a deep breath and pause for one minute without doing anything! There, did you feel the magic?" (Avijeet Das🖋)
#HappyWeekend 🍀
"Take a Deep Breath" - a new, charming piece by @ampomata