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Stay As You Are,1978

#Nastassja Kinski #marcello mastroianni #cinema

wild-beatniks

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these days...

#mood

antoniettabrandeisova

Roses and Jasmine in a Delft Vase France, C. 1880-81. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#renoir #still life #impressionism

mesogeios

“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

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One of current favorites.

#books #james elkins #favorites

faengelia

#feeling

Summertime, 1955

Katherine Hepburn

#katherine hepburn #summertime #venice #moodboard #love #cinema #vintage

celeritious

#floral #daily #lovely

violentwavesofemotion-deactivat

Let dreams move silently as stars. Let them fulfil you – and be still.

Fyodor Tyutchev, tr. by Robert Chandler, from “Silentium,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

#essentials

nevver

Sundays are the worst

Sundays

Reading list

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