“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Art – Olga Kvasha, born in 1976 in Lutsk, Ukraine.
She lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine, in the field of oil painting, book illustration.
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. – Phil Ochs
Art – Fern Isabel Coppedge (American painter) 1883 – 1951
“Houses along the Delaware”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H. G. Wells
Untitled (Yellow and Blue) by Mark Rothko
Glory to Ukraine!
“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”
– Ben Okri
Art – Tavik Frantisek Simon – Vilma Reading on a Sofa, 1912.
“Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.”
– Somerset Maugham
Art – René Magritte – L’art de la conversation [The Art of Conversation], 1950
“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.”
― Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Shell of Sense
Otto Valstad 1862-1950
Norwegian educator, painter, book illustrator and children’s writer
Evening at the Arno – 1913
“Tenderness is the currency of love”
I believe that above everything there hovers a Nebula of love.
And randomly, one builds a stairway to the nebula and starts throwing buckets of love to you.
Because it is sweet and warm, you confuse it with wild rain drops in midsummer or huge snowflakes or just candy floss.
Whenever I feel the beautiful rain and the snowflakes thawing fire on my cheek, I’ll know you’re there in the nebula, dumping buckets full of love in my head…
Featured on Medium/ the Blue Insights publication.
https://medium.com/blueinsight/love-nebula-2c4097008761
Art – Haruyo Morita, Love Letter. Source: Facebook
Paragon of hope
Burning sorrow
of the morrow
Is the secret
of Tomorrow.
Published on Blue Insights, a Medium publication.
https://medium.com/blueinsight/tomorrow-93113ee374a9
Art – Guido Borelli. Source: Pinterest
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
Art – Robert Panitzsch (German -Danish painter)
“Call us what you will: we are made such by love.”
― Delmore Schwartz
Art – Olle Hjortzberg (Swedish, 1872–1959)
“Amaryllis in the Window”
