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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you, Yoshimi, you too!

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, Yoshimi, get a good night's sleep!

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Possibly not one of David's proudest moments...😉

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

G. I. Gurdjieff, ‘Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson (1950)... #Painting, ‘Gurdjieff’ by Fabrizio Cassetta.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bon week-end à toi aussi, Molly! 🙂

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)... #Sculpture, ‘Meditation,’ Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Ghost Sails.’ #Photography by Nguyen Cao Dam (1950).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“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.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.” ~ Michel de Montaigne, ‘Essais’ (1595) #Painting by Jan Van Eyck, 1433.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Night and Willow.’ #Painting by Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Ugolino and His Sons.’ #Sculpture (detail) by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux [1865] #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, I very much agree, such a striking work of ancient art!

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“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

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Volto femminile reclinato.’ #Painting (detail) by Cesare Laurenti [1903] #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cat sits proudly upon the head of the Egyptian god Bes in #Rome. #Photography by Elliott Erwin (1959) #sculpture

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Deepak Chopra ‘The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.’ #Sculpture

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“We are travellers on a cosmic journey – star-dust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient.” ~ Deepak Chopra (b. 1946) #Photography, ‘The Painter of the Eiffel Tower,’ Marc Riboud, 1953.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Silence It has a sound, a fullness. It's heavy with sigh of tree, and space between breaths. It's ripe with pause between birdsong and crash of surf. It's golden they say. But no one tells us it's addictive. ~ Angela Long #Painting by Johan Abeling.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘A Game of Billiards.’ #Painting (detail) by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1807) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Olive scions one year old growing on a 30 year-old stump.’ #Photography from ‘Olive culture in California’ (1960).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Signals for downed air crew members to use to communicate with rescue plane personnel in the air.’ #Drawing from ‘Jungle, desert, arctic, ocean emergencies’ (1944).

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hope you're feeling better today, Yoshimi, have a good Friday!

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Topiary pig.’ #Photography from ‘The book of topiary’ (1904) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Zahir’ (1949)... #Painting, ‘Whippoorwill Flower Trillium,’ Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.” ~ Zen proverb #Photography, Don Amaro, ‘A Shower of Light at Sea, Caniço, Madeira, Portugal.’

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.” ~ Plotinus, ‘The Enneads’ (2nd century) #Photography via Ahram.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sorry to hear about the cold, Yoshimi, drink some hot tea with honey, that should help!

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Start a lie and a truth together, like hare and hound: the lie will run fast and smooth, and no man will ever turn it aside; but at the truth most hands will fling a stone, and so hinder it for sport’s sake, if they can.” ~ Ouida (1839-1908) #Painting by Jackie Morris.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Rodin en tenue d'atelier’ (Rodin in his studio clothes). #Photography [c. 1880].

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Regina,’ ‘Unimpressed’ & ‘Knowing Glance.’ #Painting by Ryan Pickart #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gaston Bachelard, ‘The Poetics of Space’ (1957)... #Photography by Luke Storms.

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