Printable Vintage Art: Flowers by Lovis Corinth

Flowers, 1911
by Lovis Corinth (1858–1925)

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I breathe in...
the fragrance
of love, and moist sand
the one
his roses left
on both my hands

I just keep on breathing
every moment
as much as I can
preserving it, in my body
for the day
it can’t.
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry drunk. The senses fused; sometimes these roses emitted low but intolerably piercing pentatonic melodies which were the sound of their deep crimson colour and yet we heard them inside our nostrils.
― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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Printable Vintage Art: Shelling Peas by Myles Birket Foster

Shelling Peas, 19th century
by Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899)

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

In life you have to learn to count the good days.
You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you.
So I’m putting today in my pocket and I’m off to bed.
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

If you like, you can download my digitally enhanced version of the painting above as a high-res, printable 12” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate.
And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

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Printable Vintage Art: Beneath the Birches by Carl Larsson

Beneath the Birches, 1902
by Carl Larsson (1853–1919)

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Beneath you birch with silver bark
And boughs so pendulous and fair,
The brook falls scattered down the rock:
and all is mossy there.
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people
and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits.
People were always the limiters of happiness
except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

You can download a digitally enhanced version of the vintage painting (as seen above) as a high-res 7” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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