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❝Faber est suae quisque fortunae❞
"Every man is an artisan of his own fortune"
~Appius Claudius Caecus
how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
— Virginia Woolf
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.” - Dr. Maya Angelou “Caged Bird” I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
- A Midsummer Nights Dream, Williams Shakespeare
st stephen’s cathedral in vienna
It is so cruel that we think we’re wasting time when we’re doing something that we love and that does not have any materialistic returns
There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚞, 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟸)
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
—W.E.B. Du Bois The Soul of Black Folk
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” - Clarice Lispector
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.“
– Oscar Wilde
playing violin in the big room with vintage furniture, wearing silk bathrobe, reading books about art, drinking black coffee with your friends and discussing the last visit to museum
p.s: photos are not mine! If you know the owner, write me, please!
Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir
–Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
what do you mean i can’t attend a mysterious but prestigious boarding school in the late sixties and make friends for life whilst falling in love with a stranger and hanging around in the libraries (all set to a dark indie soundtrack)?
– Sergey Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario, 1872-1929), to French dramatist and film director Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Jorie Graham, from “San Sepolcro”, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems
The heart has its storms, has its seasons of drooping but also its calms and even its times of exaltation. There is a time of sighing and of praying but there is also a time of answer to prayer. Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 3 November 1876 (via weltenwellen)
when the quarantine is over we are bringing back the cult of dionysus
you weren’t a “well behaved” child you had anxiety and were terrified of conflict
You kinda have to just be insane. And keep doing that forever
life is short. art is long. create it. breathe it. love it. most importantly, feel it. feel the good and the bad art. the questionable, unexplainable art that truly makes you think.
𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎, 𝙴 𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚜 (𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟷)
“I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
Donna Tartt from The Secret History
“My winter days are spent forgetting you.”
“Its a hard world to be different in.”