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[thequotejournals]

To know what people really think, observe what they do, not what they say.

Rene Descartes (via wordsnquotes)

[tremendousandsonorouswords]

Henri Matisse, Dessin à la plume (Fleur de lys), 1941

[bootycap]

[urbanoutfitters]

Via meghanmcknigh

[artaslanguage]

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

henri M A T I S S E (via artaslanguage)

[thecozythings]

[luxe-pauvre]

[animus-inviolabilis]

[leserpente]

Adam Naming the Beasts (Detail) William Blake 1810.

[dappledwithshadow]

Detail from The Flight into Egypt Adam Elsheimer (German, 1578-1610) 1609

[nightoftheghoulz]

nudibranch egg ribbons

[minima--moralia]

[…] we were still making ourselves in an unsettled world. And the world settled for darkness, while you settled things for yourself.

Simone de Beauvoir, in a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre (via minima--moralia)

[emotional-algebra]

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W.B. Yeats (via emotional-algebra)

Yees…

(via catherinewillis)

[sabonhomeblog]

[artaslanguage]

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

pablo P I C A S S O (via artaslanguage)

[dappledwithshadow]

Mark Rothko

[luthienne]

Oh, to be rid of my fixed ideas of how things “ought” to be—

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via luthienne)

[peonyandcream]

Women are taught to see their bodies in parts and to evaluate each part separately. Breasts, feet, hips, waistline, neck, eyes, nose, complexion, hair, and so on –each in turn is submitted to an anxious, fretful almost despairing scrutiny.

Susan Sontag, Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source (via camelandcream)