These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849) · 1831-32
Third Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Laziness
Félix Edouard Vallotton · 1896
First Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair
Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756–1823) · 1810–20
Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654) · designed 1645–46, probably made 1650–55
The Zone (Outside the City Walls)
Georges Seurat · 1882–83
Portrait of a Man
Christian Friedrich Zincke (German, 1683/85–1767) · c. 1735
Water Lilies
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1906
River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day
Dong Qichang (Chinese, 1555–1636) · c. 1624–27
Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1887
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Laozi Riding an Ox
Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598/99–1652) · 1598–1652
Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891) · 1883
Vale of Kashmir
Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872) · 1867
The Coiffure
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) · 1890–91
Interior with Pink Wallpaper III
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1899
Madam Pompadour
Amedeo Modigliani · 1915
Flower Study of an Anemone
Henrik Wigström (Russian, 1862–1923) · c. 1905–15
Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752
Moonrise
George Inness (American, 1825–1894) · 1891
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Marcus Aurelius
Spring Flowers
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1864
Interior of St. Mark's, Venice
David Dalhoff Neal (American, 1838–1915) · 1869
The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806) · c. 1793
Flower Clouds
Odilon Redon · c. 1903
Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) · 1833
Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Printed at Bannister Hall Print Works (English, active 1799-1840) · c. 1815
Flower Study of a Lowbush Cranberry or Lingonberry
House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918) · c. 1885–1915
Odawara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · c. 1806
Gardener's House at Antibes
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1888
Under the Lamp
Mary Cassatt · c. 1882
Vue générale prise à l'angle sud-ouest, Philoe
Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894) · 1849–50
Édouard Manet
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) · 1867
Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)
Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879) · c. 1850
Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1887
Interior with Pink Wallpaper I
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1899
Fragment
France · Mid–18th century
Moon Viewing, from The Tale of Heike
Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783) · 1700s
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble
Alfred Stieglitz · 1919
Garden for Solitary Enjoyment
Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494–1552) · 1515–52
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1919/20
Saint Jerome in a Landscape
Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564) · c. 1530
The Letter
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) · 1890–91
Mosaique: The Imperial Court of Napoleon III
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889) · c. 1866
Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884
Portrait of Renoir
Frédéric Bazille (French, 1841–1870) · 1867
Village Among the Trees
Unknown artist · c. 1560
Water Container with Peonies
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914) · 1900–1914
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1877
Portrait of Mary Wise
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · c. 1774
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) · 1872
Flower Study of a Wild Rose
House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918) · c. 1885–1915
Weeping Tree
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Seneca
The Age of Bronze
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) · 1875–76
Panel
France · c. 1724/27
Study for The Blessed Alessandro Sauli
Pierre Puget (French, 1620–1694) · 1663–1668
Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Printed at Bannister Hall Print Works (English, active 1799-1840) · c. 1815
Landscape
Sōami (Japanese, d. 1525) · early 1500s
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
The Red Kerchief
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · c. 1868–73
Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
Honoré Victorin Daumier · October 2, 1834
South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) · early 1830s
Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
Sleepy Nicolle
Mary Cassatt · c. 1900
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1632–1705) · c. 1675
On a Balcony
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) · 1878–79
The Print Collector
Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879) · c. 1860
Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884
River Village: Fisherman's Joy
Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) · c. 1302–3
Shepherds in a Landscape
Giulio Campagnola (Italian, 1482–1515) · c. 1517
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Fata Morgana
Giambologna (Flemish, active Italy, 1529–1608) · c. 1572
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
Jane Austen
Portrait of a Girl
Sampson Towgood Roch · ca. 1790
Self-Portrait
John I Smart (British, 1741–1811) · 1802
Portrait of John D. Rockefeller
William C. North (American, 1814–1890) · 1857–58
Portrait of Dora Wheeler
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916) · 1882–83
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze · 1851
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
Irises
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
"Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,
Emily Dickinson, Hope is the thing with feathers
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890