Andrea Simoncini & Nathaniel Hawthorne

Meditation, photo by Andrea Simoncini, www.andreasimoncini.com



If we would know what heaven is before come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirit, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Note-books, 1841

Mimmo Pellicola "Anima Mundi" & John Galsworthy

Photo by Mimmo Pellicola


There is nothing more tragic in life than
the utter impossibility of changing what you have done.

John Galsworthy

Jim Long & Bertolt Brecht

Photo by Jim Long, Courtesy Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, NY

War is like love: it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht 

Please, if you recognize the photo and the artist' name write me. I couldn't find it.
Thank you! Beatrice
Thanks to Jim Long, the artist, that wrote me! The photo was published in the catalogue for the exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, DAS BILD DES KORPERS.

Jan Saudek & Edward Everett

Photo by Jan Saudek, Parabellum, 1983



Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

Ken Probst & P. Chesterfield

Photo by Ken Probst "Tattooed twins", San Diego, 1989




Vice,
 in its true light is so deformed
that it shocks us at first sight;
and would hardly ever seduce us,
if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Chesterfield 

Eikoh Hosoe & Victor Hugo

Photo by Heiko Hosoe "Barakei" (Killed by Roses, 1961)



Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Karen Knoor "The Durbar Hall"

Photo by Karen Knoor


Reality can destroy the dream.
Why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George Moore