Printable Vintage Art: Snow by Gustave Courbet

“What?” she asked again.
He pointed ahead of them. “See that?”
“What, the snow?”
“Beyond that.”
“More snow?”
“Stop looking at the snow.”
― Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
― Edward M. Purcell

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.
― Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone

Vintage landscape artwork by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), simply entitled “Snow,” oiginally painted c1875. Digitally enhanced version can be downloaded as a printable 12” x 13” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Rain Over Meadow by Fyodor Vasilyev

There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her.
― Neil Gaiman

Vintage landscape artwork by Fyodor Vasilyev (1850–1873) entitled “Rain over Meadow,” oiginally painted in 1872. Digitally enhanced version can be downloaded as a printable 13” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Garden Illustration: The Beautiful Little Greenhouse by T.J. Beyer

“It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em,” said Captain Jim. “When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.
― Mary Karr, Lit

An early 19th century (from 1810) illustration of a beautiful little greenhouse with pots of spring flowers stacked on shelves beside it, waiting to be planted in the garden. 6” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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