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[ben covington @bencovington1]

"The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart."

#Quote by #JenniferDonnelly

#Illustration by #NomaBar | Beware The Wolves - 2008

#Wolf #Wolfes #Woods #Sharp #Teeth #Claws #NeoPopArt #Screenprint

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life."

#Quote by #DonnaTartt, #TheGoldfinch, 2013
#Artwork by #CarelFabritius, 1654

#Picture #Memory #Art #AnimalPainting

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."

― Victor Hugo

#contemplation #dreaming #flowers #gardens #thinking #victorhugo

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses."

― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Henri Laurens, Head of a Young Girl, 1920 #HenriLaurens #Sculpture #Cubism #Art

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."

Grey Line With Black, Blue And Yellow, 1923

Quote and artwork by #GeorgiaOKeeffe​​​ | #Art #Precisionism #Abstract

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Love is the only thing in the world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love does not hurt." - #LiamNeeson
Pic by #OlgaShenderova

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!"

#Quote by #BayardTaylor

#Painting by #AlphonseMucha : Madonna of the Lilies, 1905
#Mucha #Lilies #Portrait #Beauty #Arte #MuchaMuseum #ArtMuseum

[DeviantArt @DeviantArt]

Happy birthday to this boisterous beagle.

🎨 sagittariusgallery: https://t.co/ODLi0IUqJi
#Snoopy #Peanuts

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

― Chinua Achebe

#Lions #History #Hunter #ChinuaAchebe #Quote

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"Literature has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads."

Quote by #RomainGary | Painting by #CarlHolsoe (The Reader)

#Literature #Refuge #Dreaming #Painting #Realism #Expressionism

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love."

Quote by #FrancoiseSagan | Artwork by #Sainer || #Love #Madness #Sensible

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost."

Quote by #BertoltBrecht - Photo by #MartinLopez - #Fighting #Losing #Lost

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"Tu n'apprendras à aimer la vie qu'en ouvrant les yeux..." / "You will only learn to love life by opening your eyes..."

- Colette, Histoires pour Bel-Gazou / Stories for Bel-Gazou

#Love #Life #Learn #Open #Eyes #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #Colette #Quote #Stories #BelGazou

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both are transformed."

- Carl Jung

Illustration by #CatalinaEstrada

#Meeting #Personalities #Contact #Chemistry #Reaction #Transformation #CarlJung #Quote #Illustration

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"We are vulnerable, not fragile, but our desire to go through life without feeling pain makes us feel fragile."

― Luigina Sgarro

#Muguet #LilyOfTheValley #Vulnerability #Fragility #Desire #Life #Fear #Pain #LuiginaSgarro #Quote

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing 'yes' in the sky."

― Monique Duval

Illustration by Guy Mckinley

#birds #dance #free #freedom #wind #moniqueduval #quote #guymckinley #illustration

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"We cannot say why. The reason for love is love. The reason for love is that we love."

- Vladimir Jankélévitch

#love #quote #jankelevitch #vladimirjankelevitch #photooftheday #photography #beautiful #PicOfTheDay #happy #Smile #art #life #beauty #photo

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

― Anais Nin

Illustration by #GeffenRefaeli

#Growth #Life #Maturity

[ben covington @bencovington1]

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

Portrait by Berta Valló

#Love #SelfCare #Portrait #Art #Artist #BertaVallo #Quote #RoyTBennett

[ben covington @bencovington1]

“Smell the sea and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly”

– Van Morrison

Illustration by Jean Jullien

#Sea #Ocean #Sky #Feel #Soul #Spirit #Fly #Quote #VanMorrison #Illustration #JeanJullien