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| Joseph Anton Koch after Asmus Jakob Carstens Les Argonautes 1799 engraving, from portfolio of illustrations British Museum |
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| Joachim Wtewael Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes ca. 1600-1605 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Tunji Adeniyi-Jones Triple-Dive Orange 2022 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Roman Empire Loop (possibly a weight, as it is too bulky for wearing) 3rd-4th century AD tooled glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Joseph Anton Koch after Asmus Jakob Carstens Les Argonautes 1799 engraving, from portfolio of illustrations British Museum |
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| Joachim Wtewael Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan 1601 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Yaacov Agam Union II 1977 oil on panel Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Roman Empire Skyphos 1st century AD blown glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Joseph Anton Koch after Asmus Jakob Carstens Les Argonautes 1799 engraving, from portfolio of illustrations British Museum |
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| Joachim Wtewael Moses striking the Rock 1624 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Craigie Aitchison The Grey Dog 1976 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Roman Empire Oinochoe 3rd-4th century AD blown glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Joseph Anton Koch Dante's Hell - The Three Ravenous Beasts 1808 etching British Museum |
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| Joachim Wtewael Mars, Venus and Cupid ca. 1600-1610 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Pierre Alechinsky Salut le nord, Salut le sud 1962 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Roman Empire Beaker 1st century AD mold-blown glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Joseph Anton Koch Dante's Hell - Scene with Centaurs 1808 etching British Museum |
I will say that I have studied the earth because I feel it and do not think. I know that the earth is a living thing. I know that the earth was a sun. I know that all stars that twinkle are suns. I know that the moon and other planets, for example, Mars, are not suns. I know that there are no men on Mars. I know that people will be afraid of me because I speak of things I have not seen. I must say that I can see without eyes. I am feeling, I feel. I know that the blind will understand me if I explain to them that eyes are an obsolete thing. I will say that people on Mars have no eyes. That on Mars people live with love and that they do not need eyes, because they have no sun. I know that all astronomers will exclaim that Nijinsky is a stupid man and does not understand astronomy. I will say that all astronomers are stupid. Astronomers have invented telescopes to explore the atmosphere. Astronomers are the most boring people in the world. I know I will be told that astronomers are god. I will say that astronomy is nonsense. I know I will be told I am insane because I speak of things that I do not understand. I am the spirit in man that carries Nijinsky's body. I have eyes, but I know that if my eyes were gouged out, I would be able to live without eyes.
– from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, written in Russian in 1919, translated by Kyril FitzLyon and edited by Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)