Dirk Puehl
@wunderkammertales
Storyteller and Mother of #WyrdWednesday For those of you who feel artsy or litsy - find my blog here:
“This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.” (Sigmund Freud) 🎨 Leonora Fini “Extrême Nuit” (1977)
“Pray don't talk to me about the weather,... Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.” (Oscar Wilde) 🎨 William C. Palmer “Dust, Drought and Destruction” (1934) #wyrdwednesday
"Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about." Rembrandt was born #otd 1606 🎨 “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” (1632)
As it is only proper :-) 🎨 Allerlei Gedanken (all kinds of thoughts, 1902)
Ha, I tried to find something vaguely Pharaonic from Czeschka in response, alas… Pallas Athena musk make do…
“There was darkness in the beginning, hidden by darkness.” (Rigveda 10.129.3) 🎨 Aleksandra Waliszewska. (2017)
Few two-legged creatures have ever seen them - slow worms are always welcome, though, of course... Any road, I imagine them to be quite Elsa-Baeskow-like!
“A week later he tried the experiment of offering the lizard, to whom he had given the name of Joseph, a spoonful of tea from his cup, and, rather to his surprise, Joseph seemed quite to enjoy it” (Andrew Lang “The Red Book Animal Stories”) 🎨 H.J. Ford (1899)
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” Gustav Klimt was born #otd 1862 🎨 “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (1907)
“Therefore I am pleased to look at trees or at anything that grows, unhandicapped by the mediocritizing force of reason, and note how contorted such things are." (Ben Hecht “Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath”, 1922) 🎨Wallace Smith
“… this world was being watched keenly and closely…” (H.G. Wells) 🎨Valentina Cavalli #owlishmonday
“I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down” John Clare was born #otd 1793 🎨 Samuel Palmer “The Harvest Moon” (c 1833)
“The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.” (John Ruskin) 🎨Anton Pieck “Maraboe” (1924)
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.” (“King Lear” 4,1) 🎨H. C. Selous #ShakespeareSunday
“Come to the park they say is dead, and view The shimmer of the smiling shores beyond, The stainless clouds with unexpected blue Diffuse a light on motley path and pond.” Stefan George was born #otd 1868 🎨Franz von Stuck
"O Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood” 🎨 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1903, detail)
"No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine" (Keats) 🎨 Magnus Gjoen #bookwormsat
"Why should not I call my works 'symphonies', 'arrangements', 'harmonies', and 'nocturnes'?.. .The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.” James Whistler was born #otd 1834 🎨 Symphony in White No. 2
“Oed' und leer das Meer” (Deserted and empty is the sea, Wagner, “Tristan”) 🎨 Bill Crisafi
“The corpses ranged themselves in an immense circle round the toad” (Ernest Louis Victor Jules L’Epine "The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine”) 🎨 Gustave Doré (1863) #PhantomsFriday
“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” Marcel Proust was born #otd 1871 🎨Giovanni Boldini
“Well, ma’amselle, that is saying more than I expected of you: but I am not so much afraid of fairies, as of ghosts, and they say there are a plentiful many of them about the castle" (Ann Radcliffe) 🎨 Norman Lindsay