[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

Georges Bataille, Histoire de L'oeil

György Kepes - Juliet’s Shadow Caged, 1939