Pawel Bajew & Samuel Butler

Photo by Pawel Bajew

All animals 

except man 

know 

that the ultimate of life 

is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler 

Vincent Descotils & Jacques Prévert

Sans titre, photo by Vincent Descotils

Les enfants qui s'aiment s'embrassent debout

Contre les portes de la nuit

Et les passants qui passent les désignent du doigt

Mais les enfants qui s'aiment

Ne sont là pour personne

Et c'est seulement leur ombre

Qui tremble dans la nuit

Excitant la rage des passants

Leur rage, leur mépris, leurs rires et leur envie

Les enfants qui s'aiment ne sont là pour personne

Ils sont ailleurs bien plus loin que la nuit

Bien plus haut que le jour

Dans l'éblouissante clarté de leur premier amour

Jacques Prévert

Siausiau Suzuki & John Keats "Bright Star"

Photo by Siausiau Suzuki



"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors
No yet still stedfast, still unchangeble,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death".

John Keats



www.siausiausuzuki.co.uk 

Herb Ritts & "Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo

Vladimir, photo by Herb Ritts, 1990

"Ridi Pagliaccio sul tuo cuore infranto! 

Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor!"

From the Opera "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo: "Vesti la Giubba".

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.