George Petty, Petty Girl, Pin Up, True Magazine, 1947

Érik Desmazières, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1993

Alberto Vargas, Memories of Olive (Olive Thomas), 1920

Remedios Varo, Dead Leaves, 1956

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Yee Sookyung , Translated Vase , 2008

Richard Lindner, Hello , 1966

“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.” ~ Haruki Murakami , 1Q84

Maxfield Parrish, The Young King of the Black Isles, 1906

RIP Helsinki

John Reinhard Weguelin , The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat , 1886

Diego Velázquez, Venus at Her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), 1644

Helmut Newton, The Rokeby Venus, 1981

Nicolas Kalmakoff, The Coronation, 1926

Man Ray, Monument to D.A.F. de Sade, 1933

Hokusai , Gods of Myriad Conjugal Delights, 1821

"There are sins so flattering that, if I confessed them, I would commit another one of pride" ~ Antoine de Rivarol

Brassaï , Félix Labisse, 1948

Clovis Trouille, Mes Funeraille, 1940

Of Bats and Wax: The Uncanny Profession of Clovis Trouille, Master of Bizarre Erotica

Clovis Trouille, Dialogue in the Carmel, 1944

Félix Labisse, The Council of Blood, 1973

Jan Brueghel the Elder , Hell, 1601