Felice Casorati , Anna-Maria De Lisi , 1918

Lidded ritual wine container (zun) in the form of a bird, Shanxi province, China, 5th century BCE

Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) in The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Claude Cahun, I Am In Training Don’t Kiss Me, 1927

Bridget Bate Tichenor, The Surrealists/The Specialists, 1956

Franz von Bayros, Beauty and the Beast, 1911- 1914

Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, Prometheus Bound, 1762

Edward Okuń, Prometeusz. Ex libris Stefana Żeromskiego, 1909

We are what we think. 
All that we are arises with our thoughts. 
With our thoughts we make the world. 
Speak or act with an impure mind 
And trouble will follow you 
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think. 
All that we are arises with our thoughts. 
With our thoughts we make the world. 
Speak or act with a pure mind 
And happiness will follow you 
As your shadow, unshakable. 
How can a troubled mind 
Understand the Way?

Your worst enemy cannot harm you 
As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

But once mastered, 
No one can help you as much, 
Not even your father or your mother.

~ The Buddha as recorded in the Dhammapada

Stanisław Szukalski , The Prophet, 1919

Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, 1674

Marinus van Reymerswaele, The Triumph of Death, 1565

Ex Libris

Gustav-Adolf Mossa, Self-portrait or Psychological portrait of the artist, 1905

Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, Tipsy , 1930

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“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.” ~ Irvin D. Yalom

Domenico Tintoretto, Magdalena Penitente, c1600

Mimi Mammen (aka L. Folcardy), Apsara, 1915-16