Elyse Ashe Lord (British, 1900-1971)
Woman with Parasol, c.1930. Drypoint on fibrous laid paper.
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April 7, 2013
April 6, 2013
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
- Walt Whitman"
- Walt Whitman"
— (via journalofanobody)
April 6, 2013
"Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity."
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (via swarov)
(via outdarethenight)
April 6, 2013
April 6, 2013
Sun Rays, Paula, Berlin (1889)
April 6, 2013
Alfred Stieglitz
Spring Showers, New York, 1900.
April 6, 2013
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Washington Square, New York City. 1940’s.
“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
(via casabet64)
April 6, 2013
"The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it."
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it."
— Jane Hirshfield, from “The Weighing” (via litverve)
April 2, 2013
April 2, 2013
"It is sometimes so bitterly cold in the winter that one says, `The cold is too awful for me to care whether summer is coming or not; the harm outdoes the good.’ But with or without our approval, the severe weather does come to an end eventually and one fine morning the wind changes and there is the thaw. When I compare the state of the weather to our state of mind and our circumstances, subject to change and fluctuation like the weather, then I still have some hope that things may get better."
— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh in August 1879 (via awritersruminations)
April 2, 2013
April 2, 2013
"I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”."
— Frida Kahlo, The Diary Of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via snowonredearth)
April 2, 2013
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
— Vincent Van Gogh (via dulcetdecember)
(Source: murmurrs, via largerloves)
April 2, 2013
Salve Regina a 8, Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1600
Ensemble Plus Ultra ~ Michael Noone
April 2, 2013
The Lost Cloud
American, New York City, 1937
Gelatin silver print | 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.
“Soon after arriving in New York, Kertész spent time prowling the streets looking for fresh subjects, just as he had done in Paris. One afternoon he observed a solitary white cloud lost in a huge blue sky, dwarfed by the monolithic presence of the Rockefeller Center. Kertész said that the cloud represented himself and how he felt as a newly arrived immigrant—something subject to the prevailing winds.”
