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Whether or not you know the writings of Virginia Woolf, this poster will suit you if you love the beach and the sea. The drawing was inspired by this passage from the book Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: “So on a summer's day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying 'that is all' more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too 'that is all'. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.”

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This original acrylic portrait painting is titled: "You Are Love And Lonely". This text is also written on the painting and is from a poem written by Gerard Reve in his book 'Nader tot U': “Eigenlijk geloof ik niets, en twijfel ik aan alles, zelfs aan U. Maar soms, wanneer ik denk dat Gij waarachtig leeft, dan denk ik, dat Gij Liefde zijt, en eenzaam, en dat, in dezelfde wanhoop, Gij mij zoekt zoals ik U." My translation of this poem to English is: "To be honest, I don't believe anything, and doubt everything, even You. But at times, when I think that You truly live, then I think, that You are love, and lonely, and that, in the same despair, You look for me as I You."

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This printable artwork is titled: "You Are Love And Lonely". This text is also written on the painting and is from a poem written by Gerard Reve in his book 'Nader tot U': “Eigenlijk geloof ik niets, en twijfel ik aan alles, zelfs aan U. Maar soms, wanneer ik denk dat Gij waarachtig leeft, dan denk ik, dat Gij Liefde zijt, en eenzaam, en dat, in dezelfde wanhoop, Gij mij zoekt zoals ik U." My translation of this poem to English is: "To be honest, I don't believe anything, and doubt everything, even You. But at times, when I think that You truly live, then I think, that You are love, and lonely, and that, in the same despair, You look for me as I You."

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This printable artwork is titled: "The Mother of The Heart Of The World".

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This acrylic painting is titled: "The Mother of The Heart Of The World".

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This is a printable artwork is a tribute to the colors of a sunset combined with this text from A.W. Tozer: “Always, everywhere God is present, and always he seeks to discover Himself.”

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This original acrylic painting is a tribute to the colors of a sunset combined with this text from A.W. Tozer: “Always, everywhere God is present, and always he seeks to discover Himself.”

Always, Everywhere God is Present – Original Art

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Augustine poster quote what love looks like - help others - printable download

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A Parcel – Inspired by John Berger – Download

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Not In So Many Words – Download

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Not In So Many Words – Original Painting

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This is an original acrylic painting titled 'Droom & Daden'. On it I pasted a few lines from a poem by Henriette Roland Holst - van der Schalk titled 'De Wens':

Droom & Daden – Original Painting

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This is an original acrylic painting on wood inspired by Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'. The line 'Ik spreek mezelf tegen' is a quote from that poem and translated it means 'I contradict myself'.

Walt Whitman – Ik Spreek Mezelf Tegen (I Contradict Myself) – Original Painting

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This printable artwork is inspired by a text I read written by Soren Kierkegaard: “Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the Seventh Heaven. All the gods sat there in assembly. By special grace I was accorded the favour of a wish. ‘Will you, ‘ Said Mercury, ‘have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the prettiest girl, or any other of the many splendours we have in our chest of knickknacks? So choose, but just one thing.’ For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed myself to the gods as follows: ‘Esteemed contemporaries, I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.’ Not a single word did one god offer in answer; on the contrary they all began to laugh. From this I concluded that my prayer was fulfilled and that the gods knew how to express themselves with taste, for it would hardly have been fitting gravely to answer, ‘It has been granted you.'”

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This original acrylic painting is This painting is inspired by a text I read written by Soren Kierkegaard: “Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the Seventh Heaven. All the gods sat there in assembly. By special grace I was accorded the favour of a wish. ‘Will you, ‘ Said Mercury, ‘have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the prettiest girl, or any other of the many splendours we have in our chest of knickknacks? So choose, but just one thing.’ For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed myself to the gods as follows: ‘Esteemed contemporaries, I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.’ Not a single word did one god offer in answer; on the contrary they all began to laugh. From this I concluded that my prayer was fulfilled and that the gods knew how to express themselves with taste, for it would hardly have been fitting gravely to answer, ‘It has been granted you.'”

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This is a printable poster titles 'The Morning Invitation' Based on a quote from the book 'Love Does' by Bob Goff.

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This is a painting of mountains. The title is from a line of one of the 'Window Poems' by Wendell Berry that you can read here

The Second Coming of the Trees – Original Art

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This is a printable poster of mountains. The title is from a line of one of the 'Window Poems' by Wendell Berry that you can read here

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This painting is based on this quote from the book 'The Voyage Out' by Virginia Woolf: "When she sat down she had dropped her books on to the earth at her feet, and now she looked down on them lying there, so square in the grass, a tall stem bending over and tickling the smooth brown cover of Gibbon, while the mottled blue Balzac lay naked in the sun."

Books in the Grass – The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf – Original Painting

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This printable poster is based on this quote from the book 'The Voyage Out' by Virginia Woolf: "When she sat down she had dropped her books on to the earth at her feet, and now she looked down on them lying there, so square in the grass, a tall stem bending over and tickling the smooth brown cover of Gibbon, while the mottled blue Balzac lay naked in the sun."

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This is an instant art download of this painting titled 'Flower Dream II'

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This is a printable poster inspired by this text from the poem 'The Country of Marriage' by Wendell Berry: "You are the known way leading always to the unknown.".

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This is an original acrylic painting inspired by this text from the poem 'The Country of Marriage' by Wendell Berry: "You are the known way leading always to the unknown.".

You are The Known Way Leading Always to The Unknown – Original

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This is an original watercolor/acrylic portrait painting titled 'I Witness and Wait'.

I Witness and Wait - a portrait painting inspired by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I Witness and Wait – Original Painting

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This is an acrylic painting of a portrait of Vincent van Gogh.

All Heart – Portrait of Vincent van Gogh – Original Painting

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This is a printable poster of a portrait of Vincent van Gogh. Read the story I wrote to understand the text 'la tristesse durera toujours' on the painting

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This painting is inspired by the next passage out of The Profundis by Oscar Wilde: “Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that: it is the means by which one alters one’s past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their Gnomic aphorisms, ‘Even the Gods cannot alter the past.’ Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it, that it was the one thing he could do.

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Alter The Past (Oscar Wilde) – Original Painting

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This is a printable poster inspired by the book 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf. That book is so strange and wonderful to me. Many paragraphs and sentences inspired me. This painting is inspired by this one: "I think sometimes (I am not twenty yet) I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn."

This is an original acrylic painting inspired by the book 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf. That book is so strange and wonderful to me. Many paragraphs and sentences inspired me. This painting is inspired by this one: "I think sometimes (I am not twenty yet) I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn."

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virginia woolf art To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes.

Be yourself art inspired by virginia woolf The Waves

To Be Myself – Original Painting

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I Am The Seasons – Original Painting

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The book 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf is so strange and wonderful. Many paragraphs and sentences inspired me. This painting is inspired by this one: "And being in love for the first time, I made a phrase - a poem about a wood-pigeon - a single phrase, for a hole had been knocked in my mind, one of those sudden transparencies through which one sees everything."

And Being in Love For the First Time, I Made A Phrase – Original

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This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.' This is a line from Virginia Woolfs' book 'The Waves'.

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This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Every Moment Should be Beautiful' This is a line from Oscar Wilde that he wrote in The Profundis.

Every Moment Should Be Beautiful – Original Painting

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This painting is inspired by this sentence from the novel Karakter by F. Bordewijk: 'Het was verdrietig, ze hield van hem.' my translation of this sentence in English would be: "It was sorrowful, she loved him."

It was Sorrowful, She Loved Him / Het was Verdrietig, Ze Hield van Hem – Original Painting

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This is an A3-size PDF printable poster based on the Mad Famer Manifesto Poem by Wendell Berry, titled 'Practice Resurrection'.

Practice Resurrection | Inspired by the Mad Farmer Manifesto Poem by Wendell Berry

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Practice Resurrection – Inspired by Wendell Berry – Original Painting

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An acrylic painting inspired by Oscar Wilde's profundis. On it you see an abstract portrait of a bald man, resting on his hand and looking away.

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This is a printable artwork titled 'Roots'. It is inspired by these words from Virginia Woolf's book The Waves: "I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world. The weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs." This quote is also written on the painting.

A painting of a woman covered to her neck in flowers. She has no mouth. There are a few quotations from Virginia Woolf written on the painting: “I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world. The weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs.”

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This is an original acrylic painting on paper titled 'Roots'. It is inspired by these words from Virginia Woolf's book The Waves: "I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world. The weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs." This quote is also written on the painting.

Roots – Original Painting

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This is a printable poster titled ‘U Zoekt Maar Mist Niets' Which translated from Dutch means "You search but lack nothing'. It is a quote from the book Belijdenissen bij Aurelius Augustinus (translated by Wim Sleddens) (In English: Confessions by St. Augustine). Here is a little context of the quote in Dutch: "Wat bent u eigenlijk, mijn God? Ja, wat anders dan God de Heer? Wie is er Heer behalve de Heer? En wie is er God behalve onze God? U bent verheven, voortreffelijk machtig en almachtig, barmhartig en rechtvaardig, verborgen en toch aanwezig, mooi en sterk, stabiel en toch ongrijpbaar en zonder zelf te veranderen verandert u alles. U bent nooit nieuw, nooit oud en maakt alles nieuw. De hoogmoedigen maakt u oud zonder dat ze het merken. U bent voortdurend werkzaam en toch altijd in de rust. U haalt naar u toe maar komt niet tekort, U draagt, vervult en beschermt. U schept, u voedt en voltooit. U zoekt maar mist niets."

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This is an original acrylic painting titled ‘U Zoekt Maar Mist Niets' Which translated from Dutch means "You search but lack nothing'. It is a quote from the book Belijdenissen bij Aurelius Augustinus (translated by Wim Sleddens) (In English: Confessions by St. Augustine). Here is a little context of the quote in Dutch: "Wat bent u eigenlijk, mijn God? Ja, wat anders dan God de Heer? Wie is er Heer behalve de Heer? En wie is er God behalve onze God? U bent verheven , voortreffelijk machtig en almachtig, barmhartig en rechtvaardig, verborgen en toch aanwezig, mooi en sterk, stabiel en toch ongrijpbaar en zonder zelf te veranderen verandert u alles. U bent nooit nieuw, nooit oud en maakt alles nieuw. De hoogmoedigen maakt u oud zonder dat ze het merken. U bent voortdurend werkzaam en toch altijd in de rust. U haalt naar u toe maar komt niet tekosrt, U draagt, vervult en beschermt. U schept, u voedt en voltooit. U zoekt maar mist niets."

U Zoekt Maar Mist Niets – Augustinus – Original Painting

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This printable poster is about being in love and all the feelings and thoughts that come with it. It is partly inspired by the book + movie North And South by Elizabeth Gaskell. And partly inspired by the song 'Things I'll Later Lose' by Lily & Madeleine.

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The Dress She Wore in June – Original Painting

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