The Gardener

"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!"

Nietzsche, Daybreak, 1881

Piet Mondrian - Golden-Banded Lily - 1909-1910

Georgia O'Keeffe - Black Iris - 1926

Emil Nolde -  Alpenveilchen - 1935-1940
via ALONGTIMEALONE

"It is not by dealing out cold justice to the circle of my ideas that I can make them grow, but by cherishing and tending them as I would the flowers in my garden."
C. S. Peirce, Evolutionary Love, 1893

The History that we make Today

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today."
Henri Ford, Chicago Tribune, 1916

Lyonel Feininger - BarfuesserkircheI - 1924

Georgia O’Keeffe - The Shelton with sunspots - New York - 1926

Tamara de Lempicka - New York - 1929

Hands Studies

«Laissez un instant tomber ce voile, vous appercevrez avec horreur 

la source et l'origine de tous maux, de tous crimes, là-même où vous

 prétendez puiser la sagesse.» 

Morelly, Code de la Nature ou le véritable esprit de ses lois, 1755

Germaine Krull, Hands Study, 1929

Egon Schiele, Self Portrait with lowered head, 1912

Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keefe, Hands and Thimble - 1919

André Kertész - My Mother’s Hands - Budapest - 1919

via Eastern Bloc Party