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We have become too confident in our discernment. "We are right, others are not just wrong but evil!". We shout about Jesus while paying no attention to his words & actions. Let the week to come be a time of reflection.
Wilhelm Morgner 1891-1917
#PalmSunday
"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness." (Mark Rothko)
🎨 Yaroslav Gerzhedovich
We need, from time to time, to enter that still room within us where the past lives on as part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we're most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us.
Frederick Büchner
🎨 @lgvd
"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