The Butterfly Collector

[danskjavlarna]

From Lustige Blätter, 1908.

My collection of vintage severed heads.

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[madonna-of-the-wasps]

Ideal.

[gorunwithsissors]

[criptoas]

Anselm Feuerbach

[criptoas]

Thomas Eakins

[criptoas]

Frank Wasley

[1940to1949]

Chorus Girl/Singer Linda Lombard getting ready backstage before a show.

This image from the archives of LIFE magazine first appeared on November 21, 1949.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.

Susan Sontag, from I, etcetera: Stories (via mercurieux)

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

Wall painting of Nefertari.

[kpierreart]

Under The Surface of Things Mixed Media Artwork, me.

[bvgdah]

[laterredesinnocents]

materialbeans:

Roberto Ferri, “Vanitas”, 2014

[dolefuldream]

many faces by Jack N Richards on Flickr.

[fastenyourseatbelt]

[steelylaceribbon]

Juliet: […] and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, (1597)

[fybombshells]

Audrey Hepburn

[thescrewballgirl]

Elvis Presley and Sophia Loren

[impartingart]

Jacques Louis David, The Anger of Achilles, c. 1825