[amaliya16]

у французов питомец это animal de compagne, а у турков - durak arkadaşi

[alexandchloe]

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Jalal Sepehr - Water and Persian Rugs, 2004

[pathofregeneration]

Benny H.V. Andersson, Evoking the Lost Dreams of Eden

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Secret Places

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. Reason says, Nonsense. I have walked and measured the walls here. There are no places like that. Love says, There are. Reason sets up a market and begins doing business. Love has more hidden work  . . . Lovers feel a truth inside themselves that rational people keep denying. It is reasonable to say, Surrender is just an idea that keeps people from leading their lives. Love responds, No. This thinking is what is dangerous. Using language obscures what Shams came to give. Every day the sun rises out of low word-clouds into burning silence.”

— Rumi

[pixendrit]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

[amaliya16]

[aura-eden]

Henri Matisse, Interior with Black Fern, Interior with Egyptian Curtain, Large Red Interior, and Plum Blossoms - 1948

[theedgeofspirit]

“Every form of energy must be directed, must be applied with integrity, to the full satisfaction of its destiny.”

The Book of Thoth, Aleister Crowley

[shisasan]

Hermann Hesse, Demian, (1919)

[rumidervish]

”When my Beloved appears, With what eye do I see Him?… With His eye, not with mine, For none sees Him except Himself.”

-Ibn Arabi

[huariqueje]

The library at Point Farm    -    David Mode Payne, 1940

American, 1907-1985

Oil on canvas

[nobrashfestivity]

 Kawase Hasui, Morning at the Hot-spring Resort in Arayu, Shiobara (Yuyado no asa [Shiobara Arayu], 1946

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[huariqueje]

Autumn Glow   -   Kathrin Rank ,2012.

German, b.1967-

Oil on canvas,155 x 230 cm.

[inland-delta]

Thierry Feuz, Instant Karma Pallafitte, 2017

[humansofnewyork]

“I never thought I’d come back to New York.  I have a lot of bad memories here.  It can be an ugly place.  My ex-husband lives here.  On September 11th I was on the street below the second tower.  So there are things I’d just prefer not to remember.  But recently my mother got sick and I came home to take care of her. I was in a bit of a rut at the time.  I’d fallen away from my passions.  I was just working to pay the rent.  And one evening I was walking by the river and I passed a place called Hudson River Community Sailing.  They offered free sailing lessons.  I don’t know why I stopped.  I was intellectually convinced that sailing was not for me.  I was getting older.  I was out of shape.  But I decided to give it a try.  And I got hooked on it.  I got kinda obsessed with learning to sail.  I remember the first time I was out there alone.  It felt amazing.  I was in the middle of the Hudson, the wind was blowing, I could see the whole city, and my hand was on the tiller.  It seemed like I was doing something impossible.  I’m not white.  I’m not male.  I don’t own a boat.  I don’t even have money.  But I’m in New York City and I’m fucking sailing.”

[wonderlartcafe]

Leaves, Tani Akira 1920-?

Handsome design from a series of nature prints by the 20th century artist Tani Akira. Utilizing beautiful calligraphic line work, he creates striking silhouettes of plants and trees, or colorful allover designs of blossoms and grasses. Not much is know about the artist.

[huariqueje]

“Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture’s execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.”

— Henri Matisse     (via huariqueje)