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Stay As You Are,1978

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these days...

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Roses and Jasmine in a Delft Vase France, C. 1880-81. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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One of current favorites. 

“1. Go to museums alone. Seeing takes concentration and calm. 2. Don’t try to see everything. Pick a few rooms and choose one painting. 3. Minimize distractions. Pick an uncrowded room and work in good light. 4. Take your time. Sit, relax, get up, come back, expect that it may take a long time for a painting to speak to you. 5. Pay full attention. Give the work what Fried called, ‘absorption.’ 6. Do your own thinking. Read, study, but when it comes to looking, just look and make up your own mind. 7. Be on the lookout for people who are really looking, not simply browsing and checking labels. Observe them without disturbing them. If you can talk to them without disturbing them, do so. 8. Be faithful. Return to paintings you’ve spent time with.”

— James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

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Summertime, 1955

Katherine Hepburn 

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Let dreams move silently as stars. Let them fulfil you – and be still.

Fyodor Tyutchev, tr. by Robert Chandler, from “Silentium,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Sundays

Sundays are the worst

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Reading list

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Sarah Longworth

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Silent Night - Viggo Johansen

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Gloomy mornings at lake Bled.

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The Row Resort 2020