'Since my Friend has claimed me as His own, no other friendship do I own. When He revealed to me His Beauty, all else that I saw appeared unreal.'
- The Bustan of Saadi

'The Return Home', George Elgar Hicks (13 March 1824 – 1914), English

Un homme amoureux (1987) // Directed by Diane Kurys

'Odalisque with Tambourine (Harmony in Blue)',
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), French

Krishna Fluting in Vrindavan, 1100-1150
Asia: India, State of Karnātaka, Karnataka

“Notre-Dame at Night” & “Thames Embankment” by Thomas Buford Meteyard (1865 - 1928), American

“Tulip,” Betül Hut

“Ebru is the traditional Turkish art of creating colourful patterns by sprinkling and brushing colour pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring the patterns to paper.”

“Mystical Conversation”, Odilon Redon (20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916), French

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'Odalisques', Spanish Orientalist school; 19th century.

“Of wide hips and slender waist,
another girl, with loveplay glowing,
shakes out from her curly hair,
scented with the aguru incense,
a long string of faded flowers
as she leaves the bed at dawn.”
- Kalidasa

Femme fontaine

A long winter. The sun within you, will turn into a tongue of flame. The kiss you dream of, will shimmer like the summer rain.

By Nedžad Ibrišimović (20 October 1940 – 15 September 2011), Bosnian