#unknown by sir frank dicksee

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women + portraits

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✧ Humanities Creative Prompts ✧

~ 30 creative prompts based on literature, art, and music ~

Prompts from literature & poetry

📚 “You should be kissed often, and by someone who knows how.” - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 📚 “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 📚 “At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📚 “He stepped down, trying not to look at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 📚 “You are my sympathy, my better self, my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 📚 “Tis better to have loved and lost, Than to never have loved at all.” - In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson 📚 “We loved with a love that was more than love.” - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe 📚 "You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.” - milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 📚 “Come. And be my baby.” - Come, And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou 📚 “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” - Hermann Hesse

Prompts from art

🎨 Il Bacio - Franceso Hayez (1859) 🎨 The Jewish Bride - Rembrandt (1665-1669) 🎨 In Bed, The Kiss - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1892) 🎨 Romeo and Juliet I - Sir Frank Dicksee (1844) 🎨 Country Dance - Renoir (1883) 🎨 The Lovers - René Magritte (1928) 🎨 A Romance - Santiago Rusiñol (1894) 🎨 A Huguenot - John Everett Millais (1852) 🎨 Lovers Kissing at a Piano - Unknown artist (?) 🎨 Il Bacio - Silvio Allason (1892)

Prompts from music

🎼 Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars 🎼 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston 🎼 All of Me - John Legend 🎼 Because You Loved Me - Céline Dion 🎼 Dreaming of You - Selena 🎼 Cry to Me - Solomon Burke 🎼 Can’t Help Falling in Love - Elvis 🎼 Can’t Take my Eyes off of You - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons 🎼 Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers 🎼 Be My Baby - The Ronettes

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A Surrey Landscape Sir Francis Bernard (Frank) Dicksee - Date unknown Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales) - Cardiff Painting - oil on canvas Height: 43.2 cm (17.01 in.), Width: 52.8 cm (20.79 in.)