I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself ”

[duhkha]

“I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Arthur F. Kales ~ Female Nude by the River, 1916 | src Fine Art LA on eBay

view on wordPress

[geritsel]

Suzuki Harunobu - Refined and subtly suggestive shunga woodblock prints.

[gacougnol]

Edward Steichen

Touch is Love, 1934

[deathandmysticism]

Collectanea de Lapide Philosophiae, 16th century

[abystle]

Calendrier Magique (November)

by Manuel Orazi

[regardintemporel]

Gaston Paris - Musée Grévin, ca. 1935

[xanaxfarts]

1001 Nights (1998) Art: Yoshitaka Amano

[hauntedbystorytelling]

André Kertész :: Satiric Dancer, 1927 / more [+++] by this photographer  

src (top image) Art Institute Chicago

src (bottom image) High Museum of Art

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Friday vibe

[fawnvelveteen]

Newell Convers Wyeth

The Opium Smoker; The Opium Eater

1913

[iamjapanese]

Bror Julius Olsson NORDFELDT（American, 1878-1955）

The Wave    1906   color woodcut on paper

[signorformica]

Yōkais, kappas and other bizarre creatures from the Japanese folklore. Shinpan bakemonozukushi ~ ca.1857 • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

 Full illustration in high-res, by courtesy of International Research Center for Japanese Studies and its gigantic database of images:

https://shinku.nichibun.ac.jp/esoshi/picture_info.php?id=310&from=sr&disp=EN

[thatsbutterbaby]

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944) - Tree of Knowledge, No. 3, 1915.  

[thekimonogallery]

Rough waves by Ogata Kōrin, 1704-1709

[swinglargo]

[questcequecestqueca]

Charlie Chaplin in One A.M. (1916)

[xshayarsha]

“When the heart freezes, music liquifies it. When it is lonely, secret notes will escape and find their way to the pulse, restore its universal rhythms. It is remote and gentle. It sobs for you. It cries for you. It laments, it rejoices, it explodes with vigor and life.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diaries of Anais Nïn, Vol. 7: 1966-1974.

[nobrashfestivity]

ISHIKAWA Toraji 

 Ten types of female nudes (Rajo Jusshu 裸女十種) series

 (1934) colour woodblock National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

with preliminary blocks 1

regular version here