Vlaho Bukovac [née Biagio Faggioni] 4/5 VII 1855 — 23 IV 1922 Baronica Rukavina Detail 1898.

I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right. Paul Valéry 30 X 1871 — 20 VII 1945

Be an opener of doors. Ralph Waldo Emerson. An essayist, philosopher, professor & poet who led the transcendentalist movement died on this day in Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. [25 V 1803― 27 IV 1882] - René Magritte La femme 1958

Ako baš ne možeš od svog života da učiniš ono što hoćeš, pokušaj bar da postigneš ono što možeš: ne unižavaj ga prečestim druženjem sa svetom, silnim izlascima i razgovorima. [...] da ne postane dosadan kao da je tuđ. ∞ Constantine P. Cavafy 29 IV 1863 ― 29 IV 1933 Alexandria

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. Anatole France 16 IV 1844 ―12 X 1924 🎨Claude Monet Giverny in Springtime 1900.

Today we are remembering one of the greatest poet among painters b. #otd, Odilon Redon. [20 IV 1840, Bordeaux — 6 VII 1916, Paris] "I put visible to the service of invisible." Odilon Redon 🖼Mystical Conversation c.1896 oil on canvas 🏛The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan

Happy May Day with one beautiful Chagall's Lily of the Valley: 🖼Le Muguet /The Lily of the Valley Marc Chagall c. 1916 oil on board

James Joyce e Sylvia Beach Libraia e Editrice della prima edizione dell’Ulysses Foto: Parigi 1920 #Bloomsday

Marilyn Monroe reading Joyce's Ulysses. On #Bloomsday, Long Island, N.Y., June 16 1955. - -

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything Mark Twain 30 XI 1835 — 21 IV 1910

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see Mark Twain - Portrait of Mark Twain by James Carroll Beckwith 1890.

New places you will not find, you will not find another sea. Constantine P. Cavafy Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης Born and died on this day in Alexandria, Egypt 29 IV 1863 ― 29 IV 1933 - Βολανάκης Κωνσταντίνος 1897.