"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)
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April 6, 2013
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)
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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.”
April 2, 2013
"A photograph draws its beauty from the truth with which it is marked. For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my canon. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record truthfully."
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April 2, 2013
April 2, 2013
“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
―Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011)
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April 2, 2013
April 2, 2013
April 1, 2013
Dean Cornwell Waiting, 1920
April 1, 2013
"I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful."
— Clemence Poesy (via afffaire)
(Source: beirrut, via journalofanobody)
