Dame de Pique

" Trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward)".

[museiums]

source: sacrée frangine

[wishingwellfairytales]

There ever-dimpling Ocean’s cheek  Reflects the tints of many a peak,  Caught by the laughing tides that lave  Those Edens of the Western wave

[metropol-journal]

[enchantedbook]

he Sleepwalker by Julius Diez, 1917

[wishingwellfairytales]

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be - Anne Frank

[wildsunshine]

society6.com/product/watercolor-floral-3q5_print

[vjeranski]

Henri Matisse, The Minotaure Magazine No.9, 1936

[gafgo]

“Here’s what I know: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it. So much of getting good at anything is just pure labor: figuring out how to try and then offering up the hours. If you’re doing it wrong you can do it a thousand times and not produce any particularly interesting results. So you have to make sure you’re trying the right way. […] I’m curious about the ugliness of trying, the years and years of wanting and hoping and working. I don’t know why I’m so fascinated by craft. I think it’s because it requires such a sustained tenacity. Like Michelangelo saying that he just chips away at everything that didn’t look like David: a hundred thousand little motions to reveal the underlying beauty. I think a lot of people want to be but they don’t want to do. They want to have written a book, but they don’t want to write the book. They want to be fit, but they don’t want the tedium of working out. They’re ashamed of rejection and they’re ashamed of imperfection. I might want lots of people to subscribe to this Substack, but do I want to workshop a post every day? Donna Tartt once said in an interview that if the writer’s not having fun the reader isn’t either. I think people make the best things when they love the process, when they willingly shoulder the inherent uncertainty and pain that comes with it. It’s almost like a form of prayer: you offer up what you can even though the reward is uncertain. You do it out of love.”

— Ava, effort (via luxe-pauvre)

[mioritic]

Four stamps from a series on native flora, Romania, 1959

[yearningheart]

Sheila Heti, Pure Color

[arearchive]

Beata Heuman’s London flat | Photo by Simon Brown

[thehopefulquotes]

“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again.”

— Unknown

[simena]

Donato Creti

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[wishingwellfairytales]

Sometimes I read “Beauty and the Beast” as a dream a person is having, where the girl and the beast are the same person. They have to try and love the growing cracks inside, and make their monster beautiful - @cottageinwood

[thesetinyyears]

[museiums]

artist: margaret jeane