Letters from Paris. Painting by Konstantin Kacev. This gallery of nostalgic paintings is titled “Letters from Paris”. At first glance you would never tell these hyperrealistic paintings from collage work of photographs. Meanwhile, these beautiful photo realistic paintings remind us of good old times, and the lost era of hand-written letters culture. No wonder, simple envelopes look like vintage now. “What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call” – Liz Carpenter. Talented artist Konstantin Kacev was born in Tashkent, the Soviet Union, in 1967. After finishing school he, with his parents, moved to Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. In 1995 he graduated from Skopje Academy of Fine Arts, department of painting, conservation and restoration. Since 1999 he has participated in many exhibitions across Macedonia, Bulgaria, France, and the USA.
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. Elizabeth Drew. Letters from Paris. Painting by Konstantin Kacev
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires…Elizabeth Hardwick
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! Catharine M. Sedgwick
Letters from Paris. Painting by Konstantin Kacev
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives. Anatole Broyard
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your letter—your dear, warm, true-hearted letter — was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
And none will hear the postman’s knock/ Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W.H. Auden
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. Elbert Hubbard
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. Lawrence Durrell
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Or don’t you like to write letters. I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something. Ernest Hemingway
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. John Donne
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. Svetlana Alliluyeva
There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters… I could be their leader. Charlie Brown
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don’t. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. Edward Bulwer Lytton
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. Author Unknown
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. Phyllis Theroux
Realistic Painting by Konstantin Kacev
Art by Konstantin Kacev
Never write a letter while you are angry. Chinese Proverb
But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold. Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
A Letter is a Joy of Earth – It is denied the Gods. ~Emily Dickinson, 1885
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman
A letter does not blush. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twain
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. Lord Byron
Painting by Konstantin Kacev
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. Mortimer Adler
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. Sydney Smith
The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. Henry Tilney
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. Sigmund Freud
