William Henry Dethlef Koerner, A Mystical Incantation, 1922

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret , Marguerite at the Sabbath , 1910

” Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.” ~ Carl von Clausewitz

"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself." ~ Henry Miller

Aaron Westerberg, Noir in Green, 2023

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony No. 4

Francesco Queirolo, The Release from Deception, 1759

🖤🖤 or the 4th "The Inextinguishable"

Carl Nielsen, Symphony No. 5 Op. 50

Soundgarden, Fell on Black Days

Olga Sacharoff, Woman with her elbows on the table, 1915

Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven

Wayne Thiebaud, Girl in a pink hat, 1973

Thomas Moran , Moonlit Shipwreck at Sea , 1901

Roy Lichtenstein, The Gun in America, 1989

Pablo Picasso , The Harem, 1906

Aaron Douglas , Aspects of Negro Life; The Negro in an African Setting , 1934

Félix Vallotton , Soleil Couchant dans la Brume, 1911

Félix Vallotton , Coucher de Soleil Jaune et Vert , 1911

Edward Moran, A Clipper at Sunset, 1877

Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885

”The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” ~ Antonio Gramsci