Pineapple

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627)

 

Alone

“Summer’s Fruitful Pastures”
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)

Dog

Theo Doesburg (1883 – 1931)

Earth Laughs in Flowers

Johann Christoph Dietzsch (1710 – 1769)

Earth laughs in flowers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Seated Monkey On Chain

Hendrick Goltzius, (1558 – 1617

Tree At My Window

Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree,  John Constable (1776 – 1837)

 

Tree At My Window

Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.

Vague dream head lifted out of the ground,
And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
Not all your light tongues talking aloud
Could be profound.

But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
And if you have seen me when I slept,
You have seen me when I was taken and swept
And all but lost.

That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.

 

Robert Frost   (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)

 

Fra Angelico (c. 1395– February 18, 1455)

Everything That Needs to Be Said

Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337)

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
André Gide

A Glass of Beer and a Bread Roll on a Table

Balthasar Denner (15 November 1685 – 14 April 1749)

Theory of Colors

When the eye sees a colour it is immediately excited and it is its nature, spontaneously and of necessity, at once to produce another, which with the original colour, comprehends the whole chromatic scale. — Goethe

Philosophers have come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and the phenomenon of human colour perception as presented by Goethe.

Yellow is a light which has been dampened by darkness; Blue is a darkness weakened by light.
—Goethe