“I Was Looked At, But I Wasn’t Seen.”

Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now – no, never quite like this.

~ Sappho

Views of Galleria Borghese, Rome

“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.

There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious. // The Secret History, Donna Tartt

"It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."

Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.

Granada Cathedral.

Wandering aimlessly among old paintings, losing myself in their silent poetry

i have no idea how artists spend months, YEARS on paintings. if my drawing doesn't look exactly as i imagine it in the first 30 minutes i'm abandoning it forever

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

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” — Paul Cézanne