Nicolas Robert

#Streetart by Blesea in Cherbourg, #France #art

“You can’t persuade people who won’t listen.” ~ Plato, ‘Republic’ (c. 375 BC) #Sculpture, ‘The Third Venus,’ discovered at The Villa of Salar, Spain.

Untitled (Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling). #Painting by Jamini Prakash Gangooly [1876-1953] #art #India

‘Bust of a Young Man,’ ‘Sleeping Child’ & ‘Head of Alphonse Legros.’ #Sculpture by Jules Dalou (1838-1902) #art

‘Boats’ (1926), ‘Pioneer with a trumpet’ (1930) & ‘Dive’ (1934). #Photography by Alexander Rodchenko #art

“He has studied the world without despising it. He understands the world without rejecting it. He has no illusions but he has hopes. He does not sleepwalk through his life. His eyes are open, and his ears for sounds others miss.” ~ Hilary Mantel, ‘Bring Up The Bodies’ (2012) #Sculpture, Paris.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ~ Aldous Huxley, ‘A Case of Voluntary Ignorance’ (1956) #Painting by Frederick Sandys, 1867.

‘It steals upon you when it steals upon you,’ ‘Parallel 41’ & ‘Unattainable hue.’ #Drawing & thread & staples #art by Anne Lindberg.

#Photography by Gilles Berquet #art

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‘Summer Palace, Peking,’ architectural detail. #Photography by David Hockney (1982) #sculpture

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‘Hagoita, Kyoto, Gion.’ #Photography by Unknown (1955) #Kyoto

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“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.” ~ Herman Hesse, ‘Siddhartha’ (1922) #Sculpture, ‘The book of Life’ by Bolesław Biegas, 1877-1954.

#Painting by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (c. 1910) #art

‘The Horrible Snow Cat.’ #Painting by Albert Dumouchel (1969) #art

‘Head of an Amarna Princess.’ #Sculpture, New Kingdom, #Egypt, reign of Akhenaten (c. 1353-1336 B.C.) #art

‘A Dark Pool.’ #Painting by Laura Knight (c. 1908) #art

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” ~ Azar Nafisi (b. 1955) #Photography, ‘Shadows’ by Ravi Pinisetti.

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” ~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Goats that dance. #Illustration from ‘Amusement for little children;’ drawing & tracing book, 1898.

#Drawing by David Álvarez #art

Volcano #photography by Francisco Negroni.

‘Hello darkness.’ #Photography by Michael Schlegel.

‘Anarchist's bomb.’ #Illustration by Unknown (1924) #art

#Streetart by Valérian Lenud in #France #art

Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight. ~ Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) #Painting by Meredith Howse.

Maldoror, ‘Comte de Lautreamont’ (1869)... #Sculpture, Statuette of Amun, c. 945 B.C.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers. ~ Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) Ceramic #sculpture by Tara Donovan.

‘Modulation V. V. N. 141.’ #Painting by Julio Le Parc (1975) #art

‘Lightning Fields.’ #Photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

‘Lichtenberg Drawing 6.’ #Drawing by Douglas White #art

Ornament in the Form of a Coiled Snake. #Sculpture, #China (10th century BC) #art

Suhail el-Isawi... #Photography, Bolshoi’s ‘Giselle’ by Ekaterina Vladimirova.

‘The First Bath at the Lido.’ #Sculpture by Quintilio Corbellini (1823-1905) #art

‘Among Waves’ #Painting (detail) by Ivan Aivazovsky [1898] #art

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.” ~ Margaret Atwood, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ #Painting, ‘Prometheus Bound’ by Peter Paul Rubens, 1611.

“Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth! And what more are you?” ~ ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther,’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774) #Photography by Joel Persels.

Roman #mosaic found in Turkey, 3rd century #art Inscription (translated from the written Greek): “Be cheerful and live your life."

‘Santa Cecilia.’ #Sculpture by Stefano Maderno (1600) #art

‘Orchid mantis.’ #Photography via Heidi Yardley.

‘Midsummer shadow,’ ‘The purple dawn’ & ‘Rise up singing.’ #Painting by Heidi Yardley #art

‘Resting.’ #Painting by Victor Gabriel Gilbert (c. 1890) #art

#Streetart by Roberto Ciredz in #Hasselt, Belgium #art

‘Icarus.’ #Photography by Adger Cowans (1970) #art

“In the church of my heart the choir is on fire.” ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky, from ‘A Cloud in Trousers’ (1915) #Illustration by CY Sun.

‘Man Reading,’ ‘Train’ & Untitled. #Painting by Bruno Vekemans (1952-2019) #art