[art-is-art-is-art]

Cyclamen, Lucian Freud

[jxn-xoxo]

#NicolasdeLargillière , Portrait of a Woman (Detail), 1696 by msmelissaburnsxo http://ift.tt/224oHZn

[thunderstruck9]

Lucian Freud (British, 1922-2011), Louisa, 1998. Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in.

[valkania]

well , i wrote the song about my best friend. everybody should have one of those friends who you can call 24 hours and be abstract and they get It. we are basically emotionally married. – björk explains what ‘jóga’ is about in a 1998 interview

[inktvlekken]

“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but ‘Mom’s’ probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.”

— Kalyn RoseAnne (via extramadness)

[ryebreadgf]

dreamy spaces in art

shanti shea an / bato dugarzhapov / emil robinson / pierre lesieur / shanti shea an / peter brown

[nickiezimov]

[yama-bato]

kontu | Niilas Nordenswan | FlickrFlickr

[theincompletechronicle]

[vincekris]

Frances Kearney :  Five People Thinking the Same Thing III. 1998

[micdotcom]

RNC attendees tried to hide a demonstrator’s “No racism, No hate” sign with an American flag. Clearly they failed to see the irony. The protester was from the Code Pink group — who haven’t been slowed down by this at all.

[wilwheaton]

Using an American flag to cover up someone calling for an end to racism and hate is the best metaphor I’ve seen in a long time for the GOP.

[electripipedream]

Gay Flames, 1970

[laninfea]

“I didn’t respect myself. (Did I love myself?) Now I have really known suffering. And I have survived. I am alone–unloved and without someone to love–the thing I feared most in the world. I have touched bottom. And I survive. I feel unlovable. But I respect that unlovable soldier–struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honorable. I respect myself.”

— Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[honigimohr]

I’m at a point in my life where peace of mind has become one of my highest priorities.

[jigglypuff]

accidentally observed an object in the sunlight and became an art major

[jamesleech]

crazy, happy, foolish, fleeting

Oil, pencil crayon, graphite on panel, 18" x 24", 2019

[thegoodvybe]