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| Max Beckmann Dream of Monte Carlo ca. 1939 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
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| Harold Edgerton Formation of a Drop of Oil 1982 C-print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Asger Jorn The Only Possession 1960 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Erich Mendelsohn Walhallball 1914 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Max Kurzweil Birdman before 1916 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Christina Rundqvist Troll Forest ca. 1975 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Stuart Davis Bass Rocks no. 2 1934 oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Charley Toorop Musicians and Dancing Workers 1927 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Théo van Rysselberghe Storm Winds from the East 1905 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Fritz Stuckenberg The Lovers Paul and Emmeke van Ostaijen 1919 oil on canvas Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg, Germany |
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| Henry Pearson Untitled 1964 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Wolfgang Mattheuer Sisyphus Escaping 1972 oil on panel Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Robert Delaunay Hommage à Blériot 1914 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Design for Decorative Border ca. 1800 gouache on paper Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Ursula Schultze-Bluhm Rendezvous in the Meadow and on the Water 1989 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dressing-Room Scene 1896 oil on paper (print study) Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
Heraclitus in silence speaks thus from his eyes: "I shall set aflame even the fire of the bolts of Zeus." Yea, verily, and from the bosom of Diodorus comes this voice: "I melt even stone warmed by my body's touch." Unhappy he who has received a torch from the eyes of the one, and from the other a sweet fire smouldering with desire.
Sweet dawn has come, and lying sleepless in the porch Damis is breathing out the little breath he has left, poor wretch, all for having looked on Herclitus; for he stood under the rays of his eyes like wax thrown on burning coals. But come, awake, all luckless Damis! I myself bear Love's wounds, and shed tears for thy tears.
If Zeus still be he who stole Ganymede in his prime that he might have a cup-bearer of the nectar, I, too, may hide lovely Myiscus in my heart, lest before I know it he swoop on the boy with his wings.
I see not lovely Dionysius. Has he been taken up to heaven, Father Zeus, to be the second cup-bearer of the immortals? Tell me, eagle, when thy wings beat rapidly over him, how didst thou carry the pretty boy? has he marks from thy claws?
I wish not Charidemus to be mine; for the fair boy looks to Zeus, as if already serving the god with nectar. I wish it not. What profits it me to have the king of heaven as a competitor for victory in love? I am content if only the boy, as he mounts to Olympus, take from earth my tears to wash his feet in memory of my love; and could he but give me one sweet, melting glance and let our lips just meet as I snatch one kiss! Let Zeus have all the rest, as is right; but yet, if ye were willing, perchance I, too, should taste ambrosia.
Antipater kissed me when my love was on the wane, and set ablaze again the fire from the cold ash. So against my will I twice encountered one flame. Away, ye who are like to be love-sick, lest touching those near me I burn them.
– from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)