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Dormition Church of the Optina Monastery, Saint Petersburg (idbronskiy)
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〰️ “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo | By Pierre Julien and other artists.
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Ingmar Bergman on his artistic influences
Swedish Television, 1966
Criterion Collection
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“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.”
— Charles Baudelaire, from ‘Le Salon de 1859′ (via malglories)
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“…the witchery of beautiful eyes.”
— Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Olga Broumas & T. Begley, from “Psalm XVII,”
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Ghismonda with the Heart of Guiscardo (ca.1650, detail) Bernardino Mei
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Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong.
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (via goodreadss)
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Charles-Amable Lenoir — La jeune fille à la double flûte. detail. 1860-1926
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Will I never rest in sunlight again—slow, languid, and golden with peace?
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via adrasteiax)
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“When I die, bury me in the sea. I’ve always loved the ocean sea with its caressing swell; it has so often cooled my heart;”
— Heinrich Heine, tr. by Aaron Kramer, from “The Sun Irradiates the Sea,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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Carmen Aguado, Duchesse de Montmorency, 1860, Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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“I move uneasily in a new dimension of helplessness.”
— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Stanley Kunitz featured in A Self-Portrait In Letters (via writemeanna)
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