errant sentences :: wise words

these aren't mine, i'm just looking after them for somebody...

[won-der-land89]

[lilithsplace]

‘A French Kitchen’, c. 1910-20 – Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)

[fleurdulys]

Santa Maria della Salute - Walter Sickert

[femme-de-lettres]

Large (Clark Art Museum)

John Singer Sargent painted Smoke of Ambergris in 1880.

It is a romantic, orientalist scene, the woman catching smoke in the billowing folds of her gown. As the Clark writes, “the details of the costume and setting come from different regions and social classes…Therefore, the scene must be viewed as an imaginary one.”

Even the substance is less romantic than presented—ambergris is actually a bile duct secretion from sperm whales, found on the beach after it has been excreted.

[silviepoitier]

Vi auguro sogni a non finire e la voglia furiosa di realizzarne qualcuno, vi auguro di amare ciò che si deve amare e di dimenticare ciò che si deve dimenticare, vi auguro passioni, vi auguro silenzi, vi auguro il canto degli uccelli al risveglio e risate di bambini, vi auguro di resistere all’affondamento, all’indifferenza, alle virtù negative della nostra epoca. Vi auguro, soprattutto, di essere voi stessi! (Jacques Brel)

Buon 2016!

[crooks-lovers]

Jupp Linssen 2012

[colin-vian]

  Mark Horst, En sus ojos no.8, 2015. 45,7 x 45,7 cm

[baroquebronze]

“Mourning Glory” Natalie Westling by Inez & Vinoodh for W September 2015

[whatisaurlidonthaveone]

~·M.Liepke

[redlipstickresurrected]

Tomas Watson (British, b. 1971, Sussex, UK) - Study of Back Of A Woman, 2009  Paintings: Oil on Linen

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mila Plaickner (Götzis, Österreich, Austria) - Rückenansicht (Back View), 2014  Drawings: Acrylics, Pencils, Charcoal on Cardboard

[pleoros]

Exploring America’s Scenic Highways, Published by the National Geographic Society, 1985

[sovietpostcards]

Leo Tolstoy’s “Shark” illustration (1960), artist V. Favorsky (via etsy)

[silent--era]

Gwen Lee and Joan Crawford in Untamed (1929)

[errantsentences]

i feel like this might be indicative of the way joan crawford spent her life

[axelkacoutie]

Bryan Olson

[citizendesigner-blog]

Contours gettin crazy. Drawing by Raneen Nosh | Citizen Designer. 2014.

[nothingpersonaluk]

BREAKING… ALEXANDER MCQUEEN SAVAGE BEAUTY COMES TO LONDON 

Alexander McQueen Rainbow Shipwrecked Dress SS03 modelled by Eugenia Volodina, photographed by Steven Meisel