She was embarrassed to even talk to me. But then I got used to it and started to blow my mind. Charles Bukowski "Women" #paintings #Writer #bukowski

“A deep river will not be outraged by throwing a stone into it. It’s the same with a person: if he is outraged by insults, he is not like a river, but a puddle.” 🪶 Saadi (Persian poet, thinker) #saadi #poet #art #persian

Woe to me if my convictions fluctuate according to the beat of my heart. — Friedrich Schiller #art #writer #photo

Heredity, environment, chance - these are the three things that control our destiny. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa #art #painting

Compassion is the most important and, perhaps, the only law of existence for all humanity. — Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky “The Idiot” #art #Writer

The answer to life's difficulties #art #photography #photo

Everyone sees the beauty to which they have grown. — Omar Khayyam #art #photo #poet #persian_poet

I love cats because I love my home - and little by little they become its visible soul. — Jean Cocteau #cat #art #photo #life

- Do you know him? “I know him so well that I haven’t spoken to him for ten years.” — Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray" #photo #Writer #art #picture

Observe the outside world with one eye, and look deep into yourself with the other. — Amedeo Modigliani #painting #art #modigliani

Oh, if only someone could figure out how to preserve memories, lock them in a bottle like perfume. So that they never run out of steam. Never faded. And when you want, you take out the cork and relive that moment. "Rebecca" Daphne du Maurier #art #writer #photography

We think one thing about the same thing in the morning and another in the evening. But where is the truth - in night thoughts or in daytime reflections? Two answers, two types of people. Albert Camus May, 1938 #paintings #writer #art

✍🏻 The problem in this world is that educated people are full of doubts, and idiots are full of confidence. • Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) #photography #art #bukowski #Writer

Words of love are always the same - it all depends on whose lips they come from. — Guy de Maupassant, "Beloved Ami" #painting #writers #art #love

Man is by nature a gambler, and life is the biggest bet there can be in the world. The more risk, the more pleasure. "Sea Wolf" Jack London #writer #art #photography

In our life, truth always triumphs, but life is often not enough. Sergei Eisenstein #art #cinema

A plucked flower must be given as a gift, a poem that has been started must be completed, and the woman you love must be happy, otherwise you shouldn’t have taken on something that is beyond your strength. #Omar_Khayyam #art #poet #poetry #painting #writer #OmarKhayam

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”

We went outside to smoke. It took seventeen years. When we returned to our home, we saw winter. Mikhail Belizarov #art #writer #book

“No one can build a bridge for you over which exactly you must cross the stream of life, no one but yourself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche #theatre #writer #art