“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
— ANNE SEXTON, from Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward.
Saint Petersburg, Russia. credit goes to @bloodandfun
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)
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” — Paul Cézanne
rainy day in paris // 2019
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perspectives.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Wandering aimlessly among old paintings, losing myself in their silent poetry
medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life.
but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-John Keating; Dead Poets Society