Monte Rogneby

Lawyer; photographer; collector of fountain pens, quotations and old albums. Living in recovery one day at a time.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Ivan Aivazovsky, Constantinople, 1884

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Saint Tropez by Paul Signac

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Marian Dioguardi, Shiny and Bright Morning, 2024.

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Les Hélicoptères, Robert Doisneau, 1972.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

When Carl Jung said:

“Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.”

[Vincent van Gogh @vangoghartist]

Vincent's Bedroom in Arles #artbots #vangogh

[Leo Tolstoy Literature @LeoTollstoy]

Try not to hide shameful memories of your sins in dark corners, but on the contrary try to keep them forever ready to be used when you’re called upon to judge someone else.

[The Global Photography Community @the_gpc_]

Balconies of Greece 📸
By: helena giorgiou

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Espresso, Daniele Simonelli, 2025.

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

One of Ayn Rand's very best observations, which has aged like fine wine:

"Socialism is not a movement of the people. It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the intellectuals, carried by them out of their stuffy ivory towers into those bloody fields of practice where they unite with their allies and executors: the thugs."

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

The Hill has posted my column on the release of the Biden tapes. https://t.co/ICYTR9ZL19 Biden lacked clarity on most everything but his removal and retention of classified material. Biden gave Hur a virtual confession, and Hur gave him a pass.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Criticized For Depicting The Large Wooden Rabbit As A Horse

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Ávila has the best-preserved medieval walls in Spain. Nearly 2,000 meters of stone, 88 towers, and nine gates that have guarded the city for almost 1,000 years.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident, materialistic youth?”

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

European museums be like:

Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
A bowl of fruit
Jesus
Epic battle scene
Some boobs
Jesus
An impressionist landscape
Jesus and Mary
Portrait of royal or rich dude
Jesus
A coronation
Jesus
Marble statue of jacked dude with tiny dongle
Jesus

[Vincent van Gogh @vangoghartist]

Vase with Lilacs, Daisies and Anemones - 1887 #artbots #vangogh

[The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy]

Virgin Mary and Child Christ at Hagia Sophia