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Joseph Cornell
Paul et Virginie
ca. 1946-48
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicolas Coustou
God of Health revealing bust of Louis XIV to France
(marking the King's recovery from illness)
1693
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
Naples
1942
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Guillaume Coustou the Younger
Vulcan
1742
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
Celestial Navigation - Night Version
1956-58
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Guillaume Coustou the Elder
Hippomenes pursuing Atalanta
1712
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
Grand Hôtel Bon Port
1954
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Guillaume Coustou the Elder
Hercules on the Pyre
1704
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
Paolo and Francesca
1943-48
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicolas Coustou
Daphne and Apollo
1714
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
L'Humeur Vagabonde
1954
wood, glass, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicolas Coustou
Hunter at Rest
ca. 1707
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
Medici Prince
ca. 1952
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicolas Coustou
Julius Caesar
1696
terracotta
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
Abeilles
1940
wood, glass, printed paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicolas Coustou
Julius Caesar
1722
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Cornell
A Parrot for Juan Gris
1953-54
wood, glass, printed paper, found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

I am he who feels. I love you always.

I want you, you. I want you, you. I am yours always.

I am always within your own self. I am always within your own self.

I love you always. Rockabye, Rockabye.

You are not asleep, I am not asleep, you cannot sleep always.

I love your sleep's growing. I grow like your sleep.

I love your sleep within you. I wish you good.

I love your powerful sleep. I want love for you.

I do not know what to say, I do not know what to be silent about.

I love you always, I want to love always.

I wish you good. I do not know what always is. 

I am always, always, always. I am everything, I am everything.

I wish you good. I love you always.

– 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)