‘Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.’ - Edvard Munch Munch, The Day After, 1895

August Macke

Alfred Stevens Moonlit Seascape 1892

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that is bothers him less and less.” ~ Vaclav Havel

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. -Milan Kundera Katja Lang/Way home 2022

Louis Legrand, pintor francés La cena del apache, 1901

Painting at Bedtime. Young Woman with a Fan. Pietro Rotari. Rotari is a good example of what many painters through the ages have had to do to earn a living, and that is to be willing to travel. He was from Verona but worked in Austria, Russia and Germany throughout his life.

Le phare des Pierres Noires en mer d'Iroise.

Looking for guidance

Matisse, The Red Room

Murmuration of starlings in Italy.. 😊

lumière automnale sur le port de doelan hier belle soirée

Jennifer Bush

Tittu Thomas - India

“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.” — Haruki Murakami

©Helena Georgiou

Still-Life with Fried Eggs, c. 1630 🐞 Georg Flegel (German, 1566 - 1638)