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How sad they are,
the promises we never return to.
They stay in our mouths,
roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.
Houses built and unwittingly lived in.
Jane Hirshfield
(see thread)
#autumn #melancholy
photos & sketches by @AstaMuratti
There is a breath of individual emotion and personality inside each animal portrait by Jennifer Gennari, as if their soul was captured within the paint. Her work is the definition of Labor of Love.
Interview with the NYC based artist:
https://t.co/nfSKlCGy1D
The city as we imagine it, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps.
Jonathan Raban, Soft City
François Schuiten - illustration for "Les Cites Obscures"
"Nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species, least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man."
Ayn Rand*
🎨 @sznecke 'Blind Destruction'
We like beauty, don’t we? It does something to us on a cellular level, makes us feel alive, enriched. Beautiful art opens our eyes, repositions our sight and judgement. Captures forever that which is fleeting.
Sarah Winman, Still Life
art by @PamJohns6
Get well soon, Felipe! 🍀🤍
#art by @FelipeAdanLerma
(for more, see #thread) https://t.co/hTz9LHewc6
Arthur Kimmig Getz - 4/4
The New Yorker magazine illustrator
see #THREAD, for more
"...and there are artists who speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration."
"We are thieves of the moment, taking every instance in appreciation of its true value." *
🎨 @AstaMuratti
"How lovely,
the silence of
growing things."
地上の天国
a sketch by @AstaMuratti
for #PaintSeptember