Kate Chopin, from “The Awakening” featured in The Awakening & Selected Stories
shoutout to my favorite coping mechanism, isolation
“The same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
I will tell it to you one day and you'll see everything make sense. And please embrace me and whisper sweet things to me.
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
-Michel de Montaigne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” — Paul Cézanne
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
“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Oxford, Oxfordshire.
by Rikki Austin
“burn it all.”