Every time I look at such paintings and imagine such nights, Somerset’s words come to mind:
“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.”
– W. Somerset Maugham– 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965.
Noriko Okawara, Sakura in Moonlight
“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”
“Mărțișor is an old tradition celebrated all over Romania every year, on March 1st.
The name Mărțișor is a diminutive of March (Martie in Romanian). It is believed that the person who wears the red and white string would enjoy a prosperous and healthy year.”
Photo – Willy Pragher, Jecinci, Ig_Basarabia
Mărțișor was inscribed in 2017 on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
“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
“The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
Art – Paul Gauguin, Coastal Landscape from Martinique
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
