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"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
E. M. Forster
🖌 @WatercolourJohn
'The most beautifully situated town in the world, dreams away its life in the Conca d’Oro, the valley between 2 seas'.The 1st entrance through Porta Felice is striking, as the whole extent of Palermo is caught at a glance.
Palermo
Porta Felice
@twschaller
"We shape our buildings: therefore they shape us."
(Winston Churchill)
Nostalgic vs. modern
Finland - Sketches by @mironele
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
@artbymitrai 🖌
"It’s the unknown that draws people."
-E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Jules Adler's "Les Fumées" (1924) and Caspar David Friedrich's "The Wanderer over the Sea of Fogg" (1818).
The drawings of Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963)- veiled in a soft haze, the product of a technique based on thousands of wispy vertical strokes. In "The Boston Painters", R. H. Ives Gammell says "Her portraits fascinate as revelations of character".
"The only truth is music."
- Jack Kerouac -
Rahmaninov, Elegy
https://t.co/OSbRk4TPpg
Cello & piano: Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason.
🖌 @DonnaZielinskiA
"You ask me why I dwell
amidst these jade-green hills?
I smile. No words can tell
the stillness in my heart."
Li Bai 李白
🖌 @ampomata
"Ye clouds, who are the ornament of heaven,
Who give to it its gayest shadowings,
And its most awful glories..."
(John Brainard)
Watercolors by @mdwhite1984
"Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting... "
(Mary Oliver)
🖌 @JudithWagnerWa1