Nicolas Robert
@robertsnickc.bsky.social
Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world. "Smile, breathe, and go slowly." ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh
Women farm workers labour under a cloud-wrapped Fuji in the Five Lakes area. #Photography by Burt Glinn (1968). From ‘A portrait of Japan’ by Laurens Van der Post & Burt Glinn.
“The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.” ~ Heraclitus (5th century BC) #Painting by Dod Procter, 1926.
“True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche (1947-2019) #Sculpture, Right Hand of Buddha, c. 550–560.
‘Falcon with Spread Wings.’ #Sculpture, #Egypt (4th century BC) #art This falcon, holding a shen ring represents the god Horus Behdety. The figure of this god generally hovers protectively over the head of a king.
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” ~ Marc Chagall (1887-1985) #Painting, Marc Chagall, ‘Over The Town.’
From ‘Books’ by Billy Collins (b. 1941)... #Photography, The Long Room in the Trinity College Library, Dublin, 1898.
A falling flower, thought I Fluttering back to the branch Was a butterfly ~ Arakida Moritake (1473 – 1549) #Drawing, Butterfly from ‘Language of Her Body’ by Keiji Shinohara.
G. I. Gurdjieff, ‘Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson (1950)... #Painting, ‘Gurdjieff’ by Fabrizio Cassetta.
“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.” ~ Michel de Montaigne, ‘Essais’ (1595) #Photography, ‘Canoe,’ American artist unknown, 1973.
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.” ~ Michel de Montaigne, ‘Essais’ (1595) #Painting by Jan Van Eyck, 1433.
“Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I know now that these conquerors, like many before them, & no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.” ~ Laila Lalami, ‘The Moor’s Account.’ #Painting, ‘Aïda, a Moorish Maid’ by John Lavery, 1908
