Herbert Pföstl
@herbert-pfostl.bsky.social
Fields for plant, stone, and animal forms.
Emblem banners of departing lands.
Emblem banners of departing lands.
Painting, reading, looking at things.
January 22, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Painting, reading, looking at things.
Happy Holidays.
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Holidays.
Friends,
My best books of 2025 for the New Museum in New York are now up and available. To read the reviews:
www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/...
My best of at DAP:
www.artbook.com/blog-ex-libr...
A few of my favorites at Point Reyes Books:
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
My best books of 2025 for the New Museum in New York are now up and available. To read the reviews:
www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/...
My best of at DAP:
www.artbook.com/blog-ex-libr...
A few of my favorites at Point Reyes Books:
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
December 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Friends,
My best books of 2025 for the New Museum in New York are now up and available. To read the reviews:
www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/...
My best of at DAP:
www.artbook.com/blog-ex-libr...
A few of my favorites at Point Reyes Books:
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
My best books of 2025 for the New Museum in New York are now up and available. To read the reviews:
www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/...
My best of at DAP:
www.artbook.com/blog-ex-libr...
A few of my favorites at Point Reyes Books:
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
Reposted by Herbert Pföstl
Llewelyn Powys on the Lark and his dusky darling, from the ever astonishing Earth Memories, published by @LittleToller
November 30, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Llewelyn Powys on the Lark and his dusky darling, from the ever astonishing Earth Memories, published by @LittleToller
Go out to the roses and the bees and the dove-cots. But especially to the songbirds, that you may learn from them how to sing! Singing is for the convalescent; the healthy can speak.
Nietzsche : Zarathustra
Nietzsche : Zarathustra
October 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Go out to the roses and the bees and the dove-cots. But especially to the songbirds, that you may learn from them how to sing! Singing is for the convalescent; the healthy can speak.
Nietzsche : Zarathustra
Nietzsche : Zarathustra
Accessible but veiled.
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Accessible but veiled.
Letter to a friend.
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Letter to a friend.
Be glad: the house is mined, it will fall.
- Robinson Jeffers
The Broken Balance
- Robinson Jeffers
The Broken Balance
August 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Be glad: the house is mined, it will fall.
- Robinson Jeffers
The Broken Balance
- Robinson Jeffers
The Broken Balance
My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.
July 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.
Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum. @newmuseum.bsky.social.
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
July 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum. @newmuseum.bsky.social.
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
Edward Gorey, who painted his toenails black on the day Gertrude Stein died.
July 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Edward Gorey, who painted his toenails black on the day Gertrude Stein died.
"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.
June 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.
And I the apparition, I the spectre.
- Whitman
- Whitman
May 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And I the apparition, I the spectre.
- Whitman
- Whitman
This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.
[...]
Man was not to be associated with it.
– Thoreau, The Maine Woods
[...]
Man was not to be associated with it.
– Thoreau, The Maine Woods
May 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.
[...]
Man was not to be associated with it.
– Thoreau, The Maine Woods
[...]
Man was not to be associated with it.
– Thoreau, The Maine Woods
Reposted by Herbert Pföstl
If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.
- George Eliot
- George Eliot
May 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.
- George Eliot
- George Eliot
Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing.
Why is there no book about him?
Why is there no book about him?
May 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing.
Why is there no book about him?
Why is there no book about him?
Got myself some birthday presents @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Got myself some birthday presents @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
I want to represent things as they are, or rather as they would be, supposing I did not exist.
- Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859
To see a landscape as it is when I am not there...
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
- Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859
To see a landscape as it is when I am not there...
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
March 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I want to represent things as they are, or rather as they would be, supposing I did not exist.
- Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859
To see a landscape as it is when I am not there...
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
- Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859
To see a landscape as it is when I am not there...
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Das Fett der Werke wird verfaulen. Übrig bleiben ein paar Sätze.
- Canetti
- Canetti
March 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Das Fett der Werke wird verfaulen. Übrig bleiben ein paar Sätze.
- Canetti
- Canetti
No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.
- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
March 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.
- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
These lies mean that the country wants to die.
(Robert Bly, The Teeth Mother Naked At Last, 1970)
(Robert Bly, The Teeth Mother Naked At Last, 1970)
January 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
These lies mean that the country wants to die.
(Robert Bly, The Teeth Mother Naked At Last, 1970)
(Robert Bly, The Teeth Mother Naked At Last, 1970)