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“I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don’t have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of…a love of visual beauty.”

— Jacqueline Bisset

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Interiors of the New Hermitage, The Room of Modern Sculpture, 1856 by Luigi Premazzi (Italian, 1814-1891)

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lounging around naked after you just showered and moisturized and perfumed is one of life’s many joys

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Pierre Auguste Cot (1837–1883), The Storm (detail)

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I was in bloom, susceptible, open, flower-like,

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry dated 23 May 1943 featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947

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‘An Aclove in the Art Students’ Lounge’ by Charles Courtney Curran, c. 1888.

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“Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.”

— William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life

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André DAVID (detail)

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Marcel Rieder, Jeune femme cousant à la lueur de la lampe, 1898

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i’m so thankful we’re alive to smell flowers and touch saltwater and get chilled in the breeze and take deep breaths and make foods warm with love and dance and laugh and move and wake up and dig our hands in dirt and eat strawberries and draw mindlessly and remember and sing and joke and walk down the same street again and again and make meaning. we are so lucky we get to be and feel and keep going