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[westdonlan]

Front inscription: "Ipse dīxit, et facta sunt: ipse mandāvit, et creāta sunt"—For he spake and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. - Psalm 33 

[dariusculture]

[venusimleder]

Ph. Michelangelo di Battista

[moss-777]

dream of freedom, ivana źivić, oil on canvas

[the-paradigm-web]

Circles in the sand..

[dontcallmeautumn]

[petalaftermidnight]

Brigitte🖤

[westdonlan]

kate moss

[oldpaintings]

Drowned in the Sea, c.1830 by German painter

[telojuropordior]

mariacarla boscono in “red room”,

antidote magazine spring/summer 2014 by cuneyt akeroglu.

[midnightrider1]

[mynocturnality]

Abney Park Chapel, London

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jean-Marie Mengue (French, 1855-1939) La Source Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

[jsyar9]

[gothredy]

[westdonlan]

‘Not everything that cries is a baby. Sometimes things that cry are monsters’

[westdonlan]

The Marxist dogma “Religion is the opiate of the masses” has been extended by its Western equivalent, realistic materialism, to every kind of “unreality”, an unreality that is nothing but cultural superstructures and, in fact, culture itself. Cultural values cannot be called realistic: they are myths, conventions and fiction, and are not compatible with total adjustment to the facts of life. To sit down and write a love poem is sublimation: abstract painting is turning your back on materialism and on the world as it is: the whole of Renaissance art was based on something that Marxism or atheism considers a fallacy. The unreasonable, irrational beliefs, myths, and fantasies are at the source of our greatest achievements. It is impossible to reconcile Faust, Don Juan, Homer, or Hamlet with awareness. Total awareness is cultural suicide and sometimes just plain suicide.

- ‘The Mystique of Moral Overkill’, Romain Gary