i don't know what to say

probably eating sleeping or painting

[clawmarks]

Saxifraga stolonifera (Decandria Digyn) - Mary Delany - c.1772-1775 - via The British Museum

[paintingses]

At Night by Achille Casanova (1861-1948)

medium unknown, ca. 1894-7

[nobrashfestivity]

Heart in hand, 1840s

[chelleville]

Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) - Charles Baudelaire

[radstudies]

Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian, 1880-1928) - Marsh Marigold Night, c.1915

[mischabarton2004]

Lise Gujer (execution) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (design), Cattle Drive into the Alps, 1926, wool. 

[leforetenchante]

Reverse of a gold brooch, inscribed in Medieval French ‘Ours and Always at your Desire’, 1400. The Victoria & Albert Museum. Via: Erica Weiner.

[williammarksommer]

McGill Drugstore

Nevada

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[forestgreenlesbian]

Evening Walk, David Schermann

[forestgreenlesbian]

Crossroads

Kevin Specht

48 x 60

Acrylic on canvas

[disssquiet]

[phantomleaves]

The work of artist David Curcio

1. …Who Shall I Say…, 2012

2. Bad Dreams, 2010

3. What Will You Do…?, 2012

4. Sunny’s Burning (Flame On!), 2012

5. The Hour of Defeat, 2011

6. What Will Survive of Us Is Nothing, 2011

7. Joyce Carol Oates: Never Stay a Minute Too Long/Don’t Forget the Best Will Go Wrong, 2013

[branfraser]

Olivia Hussey in ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) dir. Franco Zeffirelli

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

coming to realize for me growing up is just more and more growing into the understanding and compassion to leave people be. nothing is about you. everyone is communicating their own projections and working through things and coming into their own understanding. it’s a projection and you can extend your own grace to people to work through and grow at their own pace and just mindfully accept them where they’re at just like you’d want other people to do for you. it has nothing to do with you. you don’t have to always make it a fight, because it’s not an attack. their outlook says nothing about you and there’s no reason to be defensive. you can be secure and grounded in yourself. get to point where you can trust in your own self and the people around and that you care about to understand as well. it’s letting go. giving up the struggle because you’re solid in your self. turning away from the instinct to project.

[animalinterlace-deactivated2022]

The Cat’s Mill (1993)

[peelingmandarins]

“1. Go to museums alone. Seeing takes concentration and calm. 2. Don’t try to see everything. Pick a few rooms and choose one painting. 3. Minimize distractions. Pick an uncrowded room and work in good light. 4. Take your time. Sit, relax, get up, come back, expect that it may take a long time for a painting to speak to you. 5. Pay full attention. Give the work what Fried called, ‘absorption.’ 6. Do your own thinking. Read, study, but when it comes to looking, just look and make up your own mind. 7. Be on the lookout for people who are really looking, not simply browsing and checking labels. Observe them without disturbing them. If you can talk to them without disturbing them, do so. 8. Be faithful. Return to paintings you’ve spent time with.”

— James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (via semperfeminae)

[communicants]

Princess From The Moon (Kon Ichikawa, 1987)