beauty is terror

whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it

[fravery]

"He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light."

— Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

Mike Hall (British Artist, born 1937

[moments-in-35mm-film]

Took these with my iPhone 5s today

[ymutate]

Simeon Nijenhuis (Dutch, b.1969)

"Stairway (to the Garden)," 2025

Oil on panel

39 x 44 cm

[dreamsofmutiny]

I have traveled through many of your worlds, and with every new world I discover, I find more reasons to love you.

[huariqueje]

Tablescape no. 6 - Chloe Chlumecky , 2026

Canadian , b. 1999 -

Oil on wood panel , 20 x 16 in.

[fravery]

Mike Hall (British Artist, born 1937) "Greek Restaurant", 2023. Acrylic on Panel,

[climbhighsleeplow]

Milkweed, on my walk this morning.

[1five1two]

[fravery]

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"The little prince" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[firstlightinthemorning]

ES GIBT EIN ZIEL, ABER KEINEN WEG

Es gibt ein Ziel, aber keinen Weg;

was wir Weg nennen, ist Zögern.

(Franz Kafka; 3.07.1883 - 3.06.1924)

Foto: by Umberto Verdoliva, Street Scene, Napoli, 2006

[leighlew3]

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[fravery]

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Painting: "Alone" Alex Russel Flint 

[fravery]

Claude Monet The Flowering Meadow (1885)

[ymutate]

Tsuchida Bakusen (Japanese, 1887-1936)

Poppies, 1929

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

161 x 106 cm

The Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Colors ~ Purple and Gray

[artevisiva]