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[vjeranski]

BENEDIKT LEONHARDT

UNTITLED (WF-B-QM/V-3) , 2016 Oil, acryl, tape, acrylic filler on canvas 70 9/10 × 59 1/10 in 180 × 150 cm

UNTITLED (MD/VD-EG-CO-1), 2016 Oil, acryl, tape, acrylic filler on canvas 63 × 55 1/10 in 160 × 140 cm

UNTITLED (WF-B-QM/V-2) , 2016 Oil, acryl, tape, acrylic filler on canvas 23 3/5 × 19 7/10 in 60 × 50 cm

untitled (S-FAB) , 2014 Oil, vinyl paint, pencil, acrylic filler and tape on canvas 26 4/5 × 22 4/5 in 68 × 58 cm

[artsyloch]

Robert Ryman | Brief

signed, titled and dated 97 on the overlap oil and graphite on canvas 30 by 30 in. 76.2 by 76.2 cm.

[jesus-perea]

Abstract composition 922 / 2016

Fine art print - 100 x 100 cm

www.jesusperea.com

[1000drawings]

by Anisa Makhoul

[thequotejournals]

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently…When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via wnq-writers)

[revolverak]

[petitetimidgay-deactivated20240]

i really wish platonic relationships were more important. i’m tired of losing friendships because i’m less important than their significant other. i hate that i’m automatically not as close to my friends because i’m not the person they’re dating/sleeping with. and i hate how whenever i complain about it the response is “you’ll find someone too someday!” like no I shouldn’t have to “find someone” to feel loved and important, maybe we should stop promoting investing all your time and effort and physical and emotional intimacy into one romantic/sexual partner idk

[theliteraryjournals]

Remember: 5 months is not eternity. 2 months is not eternity. Even if it looks that way now.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via theliteraryjournals)

[explore-blog]

I don’t know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone. The fundamental human need for one human being to hear another human being say to them: “You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.”

Shonda Rhimes’s magnificent Human Rights Campaign award acceptance speech on what diversity really means – at least as good as her Dartmouth commencement address. 

Complement with this necessary read on our fear of being alone. 

(via explore-blog)

[animus-inviolabilis]

Plate 4 of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (from a large book of designs)

William Blake

c.1793 ~ 1795

[philosophyandthearts]

If you do not find a companion, intelligent, one who associates with you, who leads a good life, lives soberly, walk alone like a king who has renounced the kingdom he has conquered … It is better to live alone; there is no companionship with a fool

The Buddha, The Dhammapada (via philosophyandthearts)

[physicsforbunnies]

“Goethe’s diagrams in the first plate of Zür Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors) include a colorwheel and diagrams of distorted color perception. The bottom landscape is how a scene would look to someone who was blue-yellow color blind.”

Although Goethe’s Theory of Colors is physically incorrect, he was one of the first to put forward the hypothesis that our vision (of colours, and the physical world in general) depends on our perceptions as humans, and so what we see might not be what nature really looks like. This is especially interesting when one thinks of later developments in physics; our eyes would never have told us that light is actually a packet of waves, or a stream of photons.

[theartsyproject]

Max Ernst, Paysage Noir, 1923.

[innocencelives]

Loneliness as an emotion is far more significant than is generally looked at. We stereotypically associate it with being recently broken up with, recently abandoned, a trivial neurotypical sentiment whose bearers can’t find something real to be upset about. However, it is much more than missing someone you once had. It is a companion to nearly every major illness such as deppression, anxiety, and trauma, but still appears feeble and weak. It is an emotion that no one can understand the storm inside your head. It is when no word, song, poem, movie, book, adjective, metaphor, or intangible expression can possibly describe what you feel. It is when some inescapable barrier separates you from other people, and the same barrier prevents you from experiencing the things they do. It is when nothing you do will show people how empty you really are. It is when the more people you surround yourself with, the more isolated you feel. It is a symptom, and it is a cause. It is not restricted towards those extroverts who are deprived of socializing. it is in fact beyond a need or want to socialize. It is a desire to be understood, and for that understanding to feel genuine and compassionate.

the enigma of loneliness (via usedchild)

[mementomoriiv]

[gadgets-cnl]

[aura-eden]

Edvard Munch, Melancholy, 1894–1896