[hel7l7]

Guess this will hurt for a while

[newagewasteland]

Kirsten Dunst on the set of Marie Antoinette smoking a cigarette 

[oshen26-deactivated20260329]

“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like...then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” jean cocteau

[oshen26-deactivated20260329]

“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like...then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” jean cocteau

[stoicmike]

Competence is being able to deal with most of the situations that arise under normal circumstances. -- Michael Lipsey

[oldfilmsflicker]

[detailedart]

The fall of the damned, c. 1468, Dirk Bouts.

[youcannottakeitwithyou]

Antonietta Raphael (Italian, 1895-1975).

[philosophybits]

“Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words

[3025-jasmines]

bell hooks taught me that love must be at the center of our politics and that revolution could not be possible without love. rest easy bell hooks, thank you for everything

[metamorphesque]

― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

[text ID: I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.]

[dame-de-pique]

Anne Brigman - Pan, 1914

[springsteenstandeanwinchester-d]

Is she… you know… giving you lessons in good old female self-esteem?

[macrolit]

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

— Thomas Paine (b. 29 January 1737)

[stlowens]

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 1: 1931-1934)

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch, Study for The Kiss, 1895

[dame-de-pique]

Riso Itano - Water Lily #3, c.1929