« In the very deep lake of your eyes
My poor heart drowns and melts
There it undoes
In the water of love and madness
Memory and Melancholy »
(Guillaume Apollinaire, Poems to Lou 1914)
The actors Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift
The Guardian. Hollywood Cemetery
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940
Antonin Artaud
« When will we meet again?
When will the earthy taste of your lips once again brush against the anxiety of my mind?
The earth is like a whirlwind of mortal lips.
Life digs before us the abyss of all the caresses that have been lacking. What do we have to do with this angel who has not been able to show himself? Will all our sensations be forever intellectual, and will our dreams not manage to catch fire on a soul whose emotion will help us die. What is this death where we are forever alone, where love does not show us the way? » (Antonin Artaud
Art and Death, 1929)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Gerti Schiele 1910
Gif by Bill Domonkos
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Striped stockings 1959. Oil on canvas
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. The doll 1934-1935
Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky. Far away 1930
Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky. Blue 1927
Baron Adolph de Meyer
Baron Adolph de Meyer. Multiple exposures of a model, Harper’s Bazaar 1928
Baron Adolph de Meyer. Multiple exposures of a model, Harper’s Bazaar 1928
Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky. Ending 1926
Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky. Project for an armchair. Gouache on paper 1943
Baron Adolph de Meyer
Baron Adolph de Meyer. Ballet’s dancer 1900s
Guy de Maupassant
Are you in love?
- « No, she troubles me, seduces me and worries me, attracts me and frightens me.
I am wary of her like a trap, and I want her like a sorbet when you are thirsty. I am subject to her charm. I feel in contact with an abnormal being, outside the natural rules, exquisite or detestable, I do not know. - I tell you that you are in love.
- It is possible after all. She worries me a lot.. I think about her too much, I think about her when I fall asleep and also when I wake up, it is quite serious.
- Her image follows me, pursues me constantly always in front. » (Guy de Maupassant)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Masturbating woman 1910
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau. The lovers, Opera, Paris 1950
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau. Love during the occupation 1942-1944
Saint John of the Cross
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« In that happy night,
I stood in secret, no one saw me,
and I saw nothing to guide me,
except the light that burned in my heart. » (Saint John of the Cross)
Edwin Bower Hesser
Edwin Bower Hesser. The actress Jean Harlow 1929
Julio Cortazar
« You see
I keep thinking about you
and I don’t write to you
suddenly I look at the sky
that passing cloud
and maybe you in your waterfront
you will look at a cloud
and that is my letter
something flowing indecipherable. »(Julio Cortazar)
Lauren Bacall
The actress Lauren Bacall in To have and have not directed by Howard Hawks in 1964
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen. Close up of a model’s hands, Vogue 1925
Edward Steichen. Close up of a model’s hands, Vogue 1925
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet. The blond woman 1919
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet. Nude reading standing 1913
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet. Nude on the red sofa 1913
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Transfert des sens 1950
Hans Bellmer. Transfert des sens 1950
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Désarticulation sur fond rayé 1958
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1970
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1934
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1936
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. La poupée 1936
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1942-1945
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. The doll 1935
Elizabeth Taylor
The actress Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly last summer
André Masson
André Masson. The earth 1939
André Masson. The earth 1939
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Descending nude 1956. Oil on canvas
DantéBéa
« I can share the integrity of my soul, but never ask me to be your compromise doll. I have too much radical passion inside me. » (DantéBéa)
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Study for the doll’s games 1938
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1943
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Untitled 1953. Ink, gouache and pencil on paper
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. The pregnant doll 1937
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Study for The doll
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Scéne érotique 1980
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Scéne érotique 1980
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Organes génitaux rouges 1946
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. L’assiette
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. La croix gamahuchée 1946
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. La bicyclette 1946
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer. Le cube 1944
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Vienna Workshop’s postcard, undated
Ernest Legouvé
« Love is like the year, its most beautiful season is its spring.
All is still promises and flowers. » (Ernest Legouvé)
Josef Breitenbach
Josef Breitenbach. Electric back 1949
Josef Breitenbach. Electric back 1949
Josef Breitenbach
Josef Breitenbach. Patricia 1942
Josef Breitenbach
Josef Breitenbach. Annabella 1935
Josef Breitenbach
Josef Breitenbach. Bird 1948. Photogram
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1910
Karl Schenker
Karl Schenker. The actress Erna Morena 1914
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
« And I know of a rose that is unique in the world, which exists nowhere else except on my planet. »(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman in a green shirt 1913
Albert Camus
« My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. »(Albert Camus)
Paul Klee
Tribute to All the souls from Paul Klee
Alain Duault
« It may not be too late we must still try
To live pushes aside the threads of the rain the wild wind
Comes like a horse that gets up what a beauty
You have probably crumpled the river but everything flows
Since the black waters of childhood
Your sorrow
Your rage you must throw everything in the sewers and bathe
Naked in the leaves of the sky wrapped in clouds
You must fly like an angel laugh sing and laugh
Pass through all the rooms write a poem
That you will read on all the roads in all the beds
A poem that gives a thousand lives Don’t give up
Hope
An abandonment is a tree that dies. « (Alain Duault)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. The path into the blue 1934
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Pregnant woman 1910
H. Armstrong Roberts
H. Armstrong Roberts. Woman lying with head down 1920s
« One night I fall asleep with him
Though I know we aren’t allowed to
And I feel the fever burning inside me
Without having a shadow of remorse
And the dawn brings me to sleep
I do not want the sun to come
When I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him
I’ve lost my mind a little
And I’m no longer from here
Oh! I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet
When he hugs me close against him
When I feel that I fit in his life
I pray for fate to pull me through
I pray for the devil to take me
And anxiety turns its face towards me
And makes me speak its language
But when I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him
I’ve lost my mind a little
And I’m no longer from here. No I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet. » (Véronique Sanson)
H. Armstrong Roberts
H. Armstrong Roberts. Sunset silhouette 1920s
François de La Rochefoucauld
« The grace of novelty is to love what the flower is to fruit: it gives it a luster that fades easily and never returns. » (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Unidentified photographer
Unidentified photographer. Reclining woman smoking 1870-1890
Unidentified photographer
Unidentified photographer. Seated nude woman smoking 1920s
Unidentified photographer
Unidentified photographer. Woman smoking 1920s
Alexander Binder
Alexander Binder. The actress Marcella Albani holding a cigarette 1927
Georgia Lind
The actress Georgia Lind smoking 1928
Nadejda de Braganza
Nadejda de Braganza holding a long cigarette holder 1929
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman with a grey shirt 1913
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Female torso, back view 1913
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Reclining maja 1920-1940. Flexichrome
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Seated maja 1920-1940. Flexichrome
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920s
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Salomé 1920-1940
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940
Josep Masana. Untitled 1920-1940
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Sinkhole 1920s
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. The actress Rosita Rodrigo
Josep Masana
Josep Masana. Woman in front of the mirror 1920-1940
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Standing woman in striped stockings 1913
Romy Schneider
The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964
The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964
Annabelle Guetatra
Annabelle Guetatra. Red tears 2021. Serie Despite the night
Alla Nazimova
The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923
The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923
The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923
Vincenzo Galdi
Vincenzo Galdi. Nude with flowers 1900s
Rita Hayworth
Paul Verlaine
« I often have this strange and penetrating dream
Of an unknown woman, whom I love, and who loves me
And who is, each time, neither quite the same
Nor quite another, and loves me and understands me. » (Paul Verlaine)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Young girl sitting with a bow in her hair 1917
Marcel Meys
Marcel Meys. Nude with bunch of grapes 1910
Marcel Meys
Marcel Meys. Young woman playing the flute 1915. Autochrome
Marcel Meys. Young woman in a field 1915. Autochrome
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
“The supreme seduction is not to express one’s feelings. It is to make one suspect them.” (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)
Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
The actress Leni Riefenstahl in Der heilige berg (Sacred mountain) directed by Arnold Fanck in 1926
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Mother and child 1910
DantéBéa 