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[arte-artem-artibus]

Katsushika Hokusai - Irises and Grasshopper, 1833-34, woodblock print, 24.4 x 36.5 cm

[calvinanddune]

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

[dailycatsblog]

[llleighsmith]

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

—

Walter Benjamin (via hqlines)

This is one of my favorite things written by Walter. And it’s one of the most misunderstood ones. In a letter to Brecht, he touches upon this again - and this is shortly before he kills himself when the Nazi presence reached Portbou, at the French–Spanish border (Bataille writes about this). He explains this statement in a simple way: Hope mystifies a person, place, object. Hope can be dangerous and often restricting if clung on to too desperately. And in love, we often cling on to hope before we even begin to know the person of our affection. The idea is to love them by knowing them - discovering them, understanding them - without hope. And the thing is simple: the antonymous reality of hope is not always despair. Sometimes - often - hope is despair itself. Despair taints, mars, hurts. The opposite of hope can be elucidating; it can be acceptance without abject powerlessness; it can be resolve without expectation. And for that, Walter would always point at beginning at one’s own heart. Fortifying it before going anywhere else.

(via king-woman)

[archiveofcanvas]

René Magritte, drawing to Jacques Delcorde and Luc de Heusch. January 3, 1959. Drawing in black ballpoint pen on a quarto page 

[hitku]

by Cy Twombly

[totalsellout]

The Wondrous World of ELLE FANNINNG by Szilveszter Makó, for WHO WHAT WEAR

[cosmicanger]

Keyboard Puffer by Liminal (2023)

[yohjimuse]

alexander mcqueen fall 1998 rtw

[the-two-germanys]

Armreliquiare und Prachtschwert aus der Schatzkammer. Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und des Kreises Essen Paul Clemen Düsseldorf: Druck und Verlag von L. Schwann, 1893.

[tobiasforms]

Pentecôte - Peonies, by Shibata Zeshin, 1882

[random-brushstrokes]

Hans am Ende - Muckel (1900s)

[sleepingsirian]

[detournementsmineurs]

"Dog Collar 'Yarrow'" by Maison Vever in pearls, gold, enamel and diamonds (circa 1900) presented in “A History of Jewellery: Bedazzled (part 6: Art Nouveau 1890-1914)” by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson - International Jewellery Historian and Author - for the V&A Academy online, march 2024.

[queen-l-i-z]

[onetwofeb]

[brarchives]

salvador, bahia, brasil: ladeira da misericórdia, project by lina bo bardi & photography by manuel sá