« 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
Salvador Dali
“The bloody osmoses of dream and love occupy the entire life of man.” (Salvador Dali)
Judith in den Bosch
Judith in den Bosch. Breaking the waves
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Portrait of the actress Marga Boerner 1917
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1910
Katie Eleanor
Katie Eleanor. Dear one becomes a tumour 2019
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1913
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
« This melancholy that women have who have sought happiness and found only love. » (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Poldi Lodzinsky 1910
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Procession 1911
Arthur Rimbaud
« I was going away, my fists in my burst pockets;
My overcoat also became ideal;
I was going under the sky, Muse! and I was your faithful;
Oh! there! there! what splendid loves I have dreamed!
My only breeches had a large hole.
- Little Tom Thumb dreamer, I was counting rhymes in my race. My inn was at the Grande-Ourse.
- My stars in the sky had a soft rustle
And I listened to them, sitting at the edge of the roads,
Those good September evenings when I felt drops
Of dew on my forehead, like a wine of vigor;
Where, rhyming in the middle of fantastic shadows,
Like lyres, I pulled the elastics
Of my wounded shoes, one foot near my heart! » (Arthur Rimbaud)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Reclining nude woman with red garters 1913
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Woman with dress up 1911
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910
Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910
Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910
Unidentified photographer
Anonymous photographer. Scorpio stockings 1940
Karlis Padegs
Kārlis Padegs. Madonna with a white flower 1933
René-François Sully Prudhomme
« The dream, a treacherous snake hatched in the down,
Rolls a flattering fetter around my arms,
On my lips distills a philter in its drool,
And amuses me with the changing colors it takes on.
Since it emerged from under my bedside,
My blood slides frozen like warm lava,
Its knots make me captive and its looks a slave,
And I live as if some other person in me lived.
But soon I knew the pain of its caress;
In vain I writhe under its weight that oppresses me,
I fall back and cannot free myself from it.
Its tooth seeks my heart, turns it over and gnaws at it;
And, all entangled in shreds of dream,
I die. — Oh heavy monster! who are you? » (René-François Sully Prudhomme, L’ennui)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman 1910
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Conversion II 1913
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Reclining woman bending head 1913
Crafty Dogma
Crafty Dogma. The septic tank. Collage
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Nude woman holding her right leg 1917
George Hoyningen-Huene
George Hoyningen-Huen. Hat for Harper’s Bazaar 1939
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Nude woman with raised arms 1913
Paul Cava
Paul Cava. From the Denise serie
Charles Bukowski
“It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.” (Charles Bukowski)
Percy Smith
Percy Smith. Birth of a flower 1910
Sofia Fedorova
Dancer Sofia Fedorova as Khita in The pharaoh’s daughter 1909
« I am anchored in the roots of your lands, in each of your births. » (DantéBéa)
Arthur E. Morton
Arthur E. Morton. Cypres Morpho 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterfly 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterflies 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterfly 1900s. Autochrome
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Butterflies 1900s. Autochrome
Charles Baudelaire
« …Deep, magical charm, which intoxicates us
In the present the past restored!
Thus the lover on an adored body
From memory gathers the exquisite flower… » (Charles Baudelaire, The perfume)
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Man and woman 1911
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1912
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1912
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Two standing women 1913
Paul Eluard
« The curve of your eyes circles my heart,
A circle of dance and sweetness,
A halo of time, a safe and nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all that I have lived
It is because your eyes have not always seen me.
Leaves of day and foam of dew,
Reeds of the wind, perfumed smiles,
Wings covering the world with light,
Boats laden with sky and sea,
Hunters of noises and sources of colors,
Perfumes hatched from a brood of dawns
Which always lies on the straw of the stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows in their gazes. » (Paul Eluard, Capitale de la douleur, 1926)
Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in La piscine directed by Jacques Deray in 1969
Unidentified photographer
Unknown photographer. Still life with butterflies 1910. Autochrome
Unidentified photographer
Unknown photographer. Seated nude woman 1910s. Autochrome
Unidentified photographer
Unknown photographer. Standing woman with drapery 1910. Autochrome
Unidentified photographer
Unknown photographer. Seated nude woman 1910. Autochrome
Marius Gaston Richard
Marius Gaston Richard. Young girl on beach 1908. Autochrome
Albert de Lapparent
Albert de Lapparent. Nane 1924. Autochrome
Albert de Lapparent
Albert de Lapparent. Nane 1921. Autochrome
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse. Nasturtiums 1911
Anna Riwkin
Anna Riwkin. The dancer Astrid Malmborg 1933
Anna Riwkin
Anna Riwkin. The dancer Birgit Cullberg 1960
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall. Animal in flowers 1952
Pablo Neruda
« It was thirst, hunger, and you were the fruit.
It was mourning, ruins, and you were the miracle.
Woman, woman, how could you lock me up
in the cross of your arms, the earth of your soul. » (Pablo Neruda)
Bruno Dumas
Bruno Dumas. Untitled 2024
Anna Riwkin
Anna Riwkin. Anna as Nefertiti 1930
Rainer Maria Rilke
« Alone, oh abundant flower,
you create your own space;
you reflect yourself in a mirror
of scent.
Your perfume surrounds like other petals
your innumerable chalice.
I hold you back, you spread out,
prodigious actress. » (Rainer Maria Rilke, The Roses)
Marcel Meys
Marcel Meys. Untitled 1920s. Autochrome
Frantisek Drtikol
Frantisek Drtikol. Dance study 1919
Albert Camus
« We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.” (Albert Camus)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Colorful lightning 1927
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Town castle 1932
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Chosen site 1927
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Asiatic god 1924
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Little blue devil 1933
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Abstruse 1934
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Semi-circle against angle 1932
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Configuration perspective 1925
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Departure of the ghost 1931
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Feather plant 1919
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. The dancer 1932
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. Sealed woman 1930
« Two sparks do not make a fire. They only give the impulse, not the passion that ignites infinity. » (DantéBéa)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee. The path to blue 1934
René Magritte
René Magritte. The night of Pisa 1952
Dolores del Rio
The actress Dolores del Rio holding a cigarette 1932
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Seated woman on rock 1933
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt. Naked woman stretching 1910
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele. Woman with hat 1913
Pablo Neruda
« He dies slowly
He who avoids passion
And its whirlwind of emotions
Those that restore light
in the eyes
And mend wounded hearts. » (Pablo Neruda)
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Seated woman picking a flower 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Untitled 1933
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Untitled 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Canyon nymph 1920
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Canyon nymph 1925
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Canyon depths 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Untitled 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Canyon depths 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Untitled 1925
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Nude woman with raised arms 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Untitled 1925
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Untitled 1925
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Standing nude looking at leaves 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Seated woman under branches 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Nude woman on a rock 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Nude woman looking at branches 1920s
Hanna Forman
Hanna Forman. Nude woman on a rock 1920s
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