Deeply moving, glorious rendition of one of my favorite poems.

Thank you, Tina , for bringing it up to my attention!

🙏🙏🙏

We’re obsessed by justice, we
think so little of kindness. Justice is giving people what they are owed. Kindness, a far more important quality, is giving someone something they’re not owed but desperately need anyway. It is knowing how to be merciful.

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László Mednyánszky, Over the Tomb (1878) - oil on canvas

'Spanish Blacksmiths' by Swedish painter and poet Ernst Josephson born #OTD in 1851 He specialized in portraits, genre scenes of folklife and folklore

QP your 💛 yellow.

Yellow tulips at the bottom of the hill.

Experimented with a different style to do this #watercolor #painting of calla lilies in light & shadow. I intended to leave more soft edges
10x14in 140lb Winsor & Newton cold pressed block, WN pigments

So much food for thought in Anatole France's affirmation. I'm sure all artists agree on the importance of instinct. Whether it's 'enough', I'm not in the position to judge. By the way, Nietzsche too, said: 'genius resides in instinct'.

Picasso said that 'art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.' This beautiful painting, like many other by Anne Camozzi, shows us how art also washes away the pain and turns tears into colourful artworks.

Tears of Colours
by Anne Camozzi ©️

Otto Piene

My favorite one. Toñi

'The painting is a force field, arena of encounter of energies of the author, melted, poured into the movements of color, received from the fullness of the universe, conducted into the capillaries of the open soul of the viewer.'
~ O. Piene
#BOTD , in 1928

thks to Tina

And what a cover by Arsh Raziuddin

Alyona Schatzman I don't know if you came across Ben's wonderful reading, Alyona Schatzman - I tagged you once under this post, but you might have missed it. Do listen, it's glorious.
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Asiya Miya Mihai Eminescu, 𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳
(transl. by Corneliu M.Popescu)

'When you do spot the T Coronae Borealis outburst, think about this: because the star system is so far away, the outburst we'll see will have already occurred about 3,000 years earlier.' ⤵️

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'The things people do would look so differently to us if we only understood the reasons for their actions. Nor would we blame them so much for their faults if we knew all the circumstances of their lives, if we could feel what pressure and perhaps suffering had caused them.'

“I do not abandon anyone, but I do not hold the hand of that who wishes to leave.”

— Mahmoud Darwish

Man liebt am innigsten, wenn man nicht weiß, daß man liebt.

- Robert Walser