Howard Hodgkin, None But the Brave the Fair, 1981-84
“Everything is biographical; What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.”
(via jettrinks)
Eggleston by Eggleston.
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
— Flannery O’Connor (via quotes-shape-us)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly”
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly”
— Hunter S. Thompson (via pollgold)
(via closetpoesie)
“I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more…”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (via insipidexpectations)
(via closetpoesie)
Yves Klein - The Void (Empty Room), 1961
Be realistic, ask the impossible.
