Keep a little fire burning

Emma | 21 | ISFJ | Illustration Major | I just post things I like

[gagarin-smiles-anyway]

Dormition Church of the Optina Monastery, Saint Petersburg (idbronskiy)

[detailedart]

〰️ “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo | By Pierre Julien and other artists.

[mindo80]

Ingmar Bergman on his artistic influences

Swedish Television, 1966

Criterion Collection

[saintjoan]

“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.”

— Charles Baudelaire, from ‘Le Salon de 1859′ (via malglories)

[inkxlenses]

西湖 (West Lake, Hangzhou, China) | by mlq4296

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Nomizo Falls

[loveage-moondream]

“…the witchery of beautiful eyes.”

— Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Olga Broumas & T. Begley, from “Psalm XVII,”

[detailedart]

Greek god: Zeus.

[twirld]

Ghismonda with the Heart of Guiscardo (ca.1650, detail) Bernardino Mei 

[goodreadss]

Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong.

Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (via goodreadss)

[papillon-de-mai]

Charles-Amable Lenoir — La jeune fille à la double flûte. detail. 1860-1926

[adrasteiax]

Will I never rest in sunlight again—slow, languid, and golden with peace?

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via adrasteiax)

[englishgradinrepair]

“When I die, bury me in the sea. I’ve always loved the ocean sea with its caressing swell; it has so often cooled my heart;”

— Heinrich Heine, tr. by Aaron Kramer, from “The Sun Irradiates the Sea,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[thecolorblockcurator]

Carmen Aguado, Duchesse de Montmorency, 1860, Franz Xaver Winterhalter 

[englishgradinrepair]

“I move uneasily in a new dimension of helplessness.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Stanley Kunitz featured in A Self-Portrait In Letters (via writemeanna)

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[thunderstruck9]

Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918), Bildnis einer Dame mit orangefarbenem Hut [Portrait of a Woman with Orange Hat (Gerti Schiele)], 1910. Watercolour and black crayon on paper, 44.5 × 30.5 cm.

via dead-molchun

[agameofclothes]

Tyrell crown, Alice + Olivia