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“Every artist was first an amateur.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
( the photo is mine ). Florence, Italy.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
-Oscar Wilde; The Picture of Dorian Gray
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd."
-William Shakespeare; Hamlet
Detail of the Venus de Milo, dated 130-100 BC. Photo taken by Ilya Shurygin.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Herodotus, The Histories
Venus Italica
* 2nd century CE
* Italica (Santiponce)
* Paros marble
* 211 cm
* Archaeological Museum of Seville
http://www.españaescultura.es/es/obras_de_excelencia/museo_arqueologico_de_sevilla/venus_italica.html
source: VIATOR IMPERI, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
"Strange, but whenever I looked at him I found myself remembering that Lucifer himself had been an angel before he fell." (Susan Kay)
-Through cataclysm, Andreas Birath
- Wedding of heaven and hell, Roberto Ferri
"I could kill anyone tonight, Daroga. If the Holy Virgin herself was to appear before me I could put a dagger through her heart without a moment's compunction! I no longer have a foot in either camp; I have made my choice. Like Lucifer, I prefer to reign in hell." (Susan Kay)
- The fallen Angel, Alexander Cabanel
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves." (Milan Kundera)
- Fligeroffizier, Karl Alexander Wilke
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel …” (Mary Shelley)
"There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running Fallen from God
Fallen from grace...
...And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!" (Stars)
-Paradise lost, Gustave Doré
Stunning photo from HMT in West End, 2019 ( from here )
Godesses of night in paintings
Auguste Raynaud (French, 1854–1937)
Auguste-Alexandre Hirsch (French, 1833-1912)
François-Léon Bénouville (French, 1821-1859)
Americo Pedro (Brazilian, 1843-1905)
Louvre Museum in the rain, Paris, France
Taken June 2019
nobody works as hard as the rubber bat on a string in 1931 dracula
Daphne transforming into a Laurel Tree
Apollo and Daphne, 1620s, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Daphne, 1921, Arthur Rackham
Oh?? My?? GAWD???
“Cheers for spring, for life, for a growing soul.”
— archive moodboard for @greylette
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way." - Jane Austen, Emma