Herodotussmind

a blog of an artist, photographer, writer and poet. so quotes, poems and everything about writing I love and love to share...

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The Battle of San Romano is a paint serie of Paolo Uccelo in the first half of 1400s. These works were one the first example of linear perspective.

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Artworks from the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, who is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.

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Das Auge des Gesetzes (Justitia) by Carl Spitzweg in 1857

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Martin van Meytens was a painter who painted members of the Royal Court of Austria. His father Martin Meytens the Older was also a painter. Meytens was one of the most significant Austrian painters of representative Baroque courtly portrait and he influenced more like him. He lived between 1695-1770.

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Louis Wain was an English artist who known for his cat drawings. Later in life, he suffered from schizophrenia. This claim is disputed among specialists. But according to some psychiatrists, we can see it in his works.

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

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"I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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"Can anybody find me somebody to love?"

- Queen, Somebody to Love ♩

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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."

- Plato

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"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til you good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

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"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

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Have more than you show, speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare

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Men do not fear swords, they fear monsters.

From Dracula: Untold 🎬

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"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail."

- Kobe Bryant