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Black Swan | 2010 | dir. Darren Aronofsky

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The Aviator (2004)

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Eric Meola, from Graphis No. 251 (1987)

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Keep myself from you, 2016. Oil on canvas, 90 x 85 cm. Shanti Shea An.

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bound

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For everyone a moment comes in which he or she must utter this ‘I can,’ which does not refer to any certainty or specific capacity but is, nevertheless, absolutely demanding. Beyond all faculties, this ‘I can’ does not mean anything–yet it marks what is, for each of us, perhaps the hardest and bitterest experience possible: the experience of potentiality.

Giorgio Agamben, ‘On Potentiality’  (via spiritandteeth)

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“All That Glitters” photographed by Mikey Asanin for Nylon December 2016

Beauty Editor: Jade T. Hair: Joseph Maine Makeup: Clara Rae

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Baptism, taken from ‘Handsworth From the Inside 1968-1982’ Photograph by Vanley Burke

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter | Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (detail) | 1865

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And everything depends on how near you sleep to me.

Leonard Cohen, “Take This Longing” (via petrichour)

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James Baldwin’s talk on the artist’s struggle for integrity is really great imo.

You are responsible to the people, to lighten their darkness, and it does not matter what happens to you. You are being used in the way a crab is useful, the way sand certainly has some function, it is impersonal. This destiny which you must accept is also your responsibility and if you survive it, if you don’t cheat, if you don’t lie, it is not only your glory and your achievement, it is almost our only hope. Because only an artist can tell and only artists have told since we have heard of Man, what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet, to survive it… . None of this belongs to you. You can only have it by letting it go… you can only take if you are prepared to give… and giving is not an investment, it is not a day at the bargain counter. It is a total risk of everything, of you, of who you think you are, who you think you’d like to be, where you think you’d like to go, everything. And this, forever.