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Sun Dial. Polyhedral. Wood, iron, silvered brass. German. 12.3 cm x 9.9 cm x 17.7 cm. c. 1600.

#antiques #sun dial

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Sigmund Walter Hampel.

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The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Cornelia Funke

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Let us remember it is the brain that sees, and that the human eye is only a faulty window which shows us but an infinitesimal portion of the universe about us.

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'Moon'. Sudō Kazuyuki. 2016.

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'The Merman and the Maid'. Sir James Jebusa Shannon. 1897.

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Bernard Plossu.

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Sigrid Louise Bølling.

#art #vintage art #landscape art

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#pyramid base #rhombus #earth

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'Blue Shade'. Iwo Zaniewski.

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'Aqueduct in Arkadia'. Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine. 1784.

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But I have burned already down to bone.

There is a fire that burns beyond the names

Of sludge and filth of which this world is made.

Agony sears the dark flesh of the body,

And lifts me higher than the smoke, to rise

Above the earth, above the sacrifice;

Until my soul flares outward like a blue

Blossom of gas fire dancing in mid-air:

Free of the body’s work of twisted iron.

James Wright

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Alan Parry.

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'Suhara, Kisō'. Kawase Hasui. 1925.

#art #asian art #landscape art

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We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, and straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remorseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Mike Hall.

#art #illustration #the view