I have often imagined the monster of sleep as a heavy, giant head with a tapering body held up by the crutches of reality. When the crutches break we have the sensation of falling.
Salvador Dalí
When you know that sleep is the representation of death, you can no longer approach it as you did before…In any case, whatever precautions or methods you adopt, you must never let anyone, not even your woman, see you sleeping…Exercise the art of staying awake!…A warrior knows that to be caught napping is to expose his vulnerability…it is like inviting the world to attack and strike us to death.
Lupelius
Girolamo da Treviso (also: Girolamo di Tommaso da Treviso the Younger, and Girolamo Trevigi; Italian; b. 1508-1544) Sleeping Venus c. 1523 Oil on canvas 130 x 213 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome
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Amedeo Bocchi - Viaggio di un Anima
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A break in the studio, Edouard Richter. French (1844 - 1913)
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Egon Schiele, Sleeping Woman (1912)
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La Princesse Bleue by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
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John Collier, Sleeping Beauty (1921)
Oil on canvas
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Vanitas by Leo Putz (1869-1940)
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Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, John Vanderlyn
Sleep is good,
death is better,
but the best is to have never been born.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), Morphine poem
On a Balcony - Victor Borisov-Musatov 1899
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Idyll - Frederic Leighton c.1880
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An Afternoon Idyll - Auguste Toulmouche 1874
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John William Godward, Dolce Far Niente, 1897
Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassatt
Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil (detail) Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866.