Mere Colour

Mere colour unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. - Oscar Wilde

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Workshop of Sandro Botticelli - The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Two Angels (probably about 1490-1500)

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hareriding owl

‘Ormesby Psalter’, England ca. 1310

Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 366, fol. 147v

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Sandro Botticelli

LA PRIMAVERA - dettaglio

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Female Figure (study) Charles Sims (1873–1928) (attributed to) City of Edinburgh Council

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I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

Jeff Buckley, on moving to New York (via bl-ossomed)

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Abraham Mignon, Stilleven met bloemen en een horloge (details)

1660-79

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Here are the women with ancient anger in their veins and the cruelty of a goddess in their hearts. You will beg before her, you will scream; but Hera never flinched from the words of a mortal, so why should she? Do not stand in her way. She will burn down your kingdoms, herself with it, if it meant your ruin.

Medea /// (d.s)

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Bolshoi’s The Nutcracker

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typeasimage: TYPEFACE POSTER FUTURA 2 (Freudtzsche)

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I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita  (via muse)

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John Currin

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I came to the conclusion that there is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

Painter John Currin on meeting his wife (via austinkleon)

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John Currin