Yes, pain can make a winter bright

Lose the pain in the snow
Where all footsteps melt
And the magic trance
Bids you rise and follow
Forgetting all you felt


Adolphe Valette


Tom Climent 


James McNeill Whistler


Nils Dardel


Edouard Vuillard, 'Choice of Books'

George Hendrik Breitner, ' The Earring'

          Lose again all that you wanted...


   
            Lose the pain in the faith 


Francine Van Hove


Francois Martin Kravel


Tom Jensen


Sir Herbert James Gunn


Josef Král



William Kay Blacklock 


Šimon Tavík František 

Nachtelijk Zaaien


           Silence is never cruel, no
         For silence keeps the myths


Markus Åkesson 

Arnold Mason 


Only the myth held in the mind
Only the myth held in the word
Resist, resist the whole real world
And stands immortal and alone,
And silence blesses it, is kind.


 Polly Thayer , ' May Sarton' 


Marie Godest 

 

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp

Jeremy Mann


          Lose the pain in the love
        Where all being flows


Andy Eccleshall 


Felice Casorati 



All lines from May Sarton's poems - ("Lose the pain in the snow...")
and ("Silence is never cruel...") 
Title from her poem  - 'Humpty Dumpty'

7th painting is -  Anatoly  Korobkin,"Morning"
20th painting - Maria Remedios Kleinschmidt,'Irene in Black'

inner monologues

Zulfi




Mari Mitsumi




Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa




Barbara Kroll




'Invisible Table'





Bartosz Beda ,'Angel of Death III'


Paolo Ventura (photo)


Hadas Tal


Hollis Dunlap


Mark Tennant 


Aldo Balding


Bodu Yang


Matthias Weischer 


Daniel Pitin

'weddings + funerals', Chris Friel(photo)


Firenze Lai


Xi Pan


Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 




Milton Avery


Jakub Schikaneder




Marta Zamarska

1. quote - Rachel Wolchin
2. - excerpt from a poem by Carolyn Kizer
3.&4. - excerpts from a poem by John  Greenleaf  Whittier
5. quote - Tennessee Williams