Alexandr Hackenschmied.  V krajině, 1976. 

Magandang umaga

Richard Diebenkorn, Blue Surround, 1982

Love is an answer to the lack that lies at the heart of aliveness, but it does not compensate for that lack—it transforms it. Love transforms that lack into an excess that produces new contradictions; it is the luminous chasm and the ephemeral mass, freedom in impossibility, the always insufficient answer to the paradox of life: "vivacidad pura" (Octavio Paz)—pure aliveness, experienced from inside the world.

Andreas Weber, Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology, trans. Rory Bradley

[Photographs of tree peonies] 1968.

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Henri Matisse - Fleurs d'Amaryllis, 1941, pen and ink on paper, 20.2 x 26.4 cm

The love of god’s creatures is ever the sign and the path of a love that is infinitely more true, more lacerating, more pure than divine love.

— On Nietzsche, Georges Bataille trans. Stuart Kendall

Woman Smoking a Cigarette by Man Ray, 1920