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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5h

Roman bronze #sculpture of a wild boar (2nd century BC–1st century AD) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5h

‘Lines of flow and curves of equal wind intensity, U.S.A.’ November 28, 1905, 8 AM. #Illustration from ‘Dynamic meteorology & hydrography’ (1910)

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5h

‘Jataté.’ #Photography by Photo by Gertrude Blom (1958). From the book ‘Gertrude Blom: Bearing Witness’ by Margaret Sartor & Alex Harris #Mexico

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5h

Friend, hast thou considered the “rugged, all-nourishing earth,” as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man? ~ Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) #Painting by Miyake Wakō.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6h

Bertrand Russell, ‘Proposed Roads To Freedom’ (1918)... #Drawing, ‘Seeing objects through a prism,’ Spectralanalyse, Germany, 1870.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6h

‘Sleepwalker.’ #Painting by Maximilian Pirner (1878) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6h

‘Très Grande Carpe.’ #Sculpture by François-Xavier Lalanne (1927–2008) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6h

“A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other." ~ George Eliot (1819-1880) #Painting, Eugène Delâtre, ‘Little Girl with a Pail,’ 1893.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6h

‘The Mower.’ #Painting by Jacobus van Looy (1898) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 10h

“But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.” ~ ‘The Sympathizer,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen Ceramic #art, Artgaudí.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 10h

‘Paris.’ #Photography by Robert Doisneau (1912-1994).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 10h

‘Spiaggia d'estate.’ #Painting by Moses Levy (1917) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 11h

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ~ E. B. Browning, ‘Aurora Leigh’ (1856) #Painting, Károly Brocky, ‘Portrait of Elisabeth Barrett Browning,’ c. 1840.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 11h

Hanging in a golden chain This pendent world. ~ John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) #Sculpture by Hans Schuler, 1874-1951.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 11h

‘Egg Dance.’ #Painting by John Collier (1903) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.” ~ ‘Culture and Value’ by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) #Painting by Christiaan Tonnis.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Alphonse Legros.’ #Sculpture by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1876) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The whole Delta ecosystem is entirely dependent on the Okavango's floodwater. #Photography from ‘Prides: the lions of Moremi’ by Pieter W. Kat (1988) #Botswana

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, in adversity nothing is so difficult.” ~ Epictetus, ‘Fragments’ ( 2nd century AD) #Painting, ‘Orphans’ by Thomas Kennington, 1885.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The Romans were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.” - Simone Weil (1943) #Sculpture, Capitoline Brutus.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.” ~ Friedrich Engels (1844) #Painting by George Grosz, 1925.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Mom’s advice.’ #Photography by B. Manushin (1973).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Paris, Les Tuileries.’ #Painting by Julien Landa (b. 1947) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov (1941) #Painting by Bea Muller.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.” ~ Carlo Goldoni, ‘Pamela’ (1750) #Engraving, ‘Carlo Goldoni’ by Marcus Pitteri, c. 1745.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere. ~ Andrew Marvell (c. 1650) #Photography by Gabriel Isak.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Hydrangeas on a Garden Path.’ #Painting by Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.” ~ Emily Brontë, ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1847) #Illustration by Rovina Cai.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘The Dance Track’ Helene Shelda, a young Russian dancer who was inspired by the Hindus in British India, reaped great success in #Paris. #Photography (1931).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘The Sound of the Sea.’ #Painting by Karl Gussow (1879) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers. ~ Madame de Staël (1766-1817) #Illustration from ‘The birds about us,’ 1894.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.” ~ François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) #Painting, ‘Portrait de François et d’Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cover #photography from ‘Yoga Uniting East And West’ (1956).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spiral maze used in psychological testing, ‘Psychological monographs’ #illustration (1910) #art

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