“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
(via books-n-quotes)
(Source: booksnquotes.com)
“Arteries of the whole body.” Physiology and laws of health. 1866.
Still Life with Fruit and Oysters (details) by Abraham Mignon, c. 1660-1679.
Bunch of grapes 1873. Andrew John Henry Way
“The orange seller” by the Catalan painter Enric Serra Auqué (1859-1918)
The rufous hummingbird travels five thousand miles from summer home to winter home and back. This hummingbird can fit into the palm of a hand. Its body defies the known physics of energy and flight. It knew its way before all known map-makers. It is a bird whose origins and paths are the blood of its small body. It is a bird whose desire to find its way depends on drops of nectar from flowers.
Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
(Source: diagstudio)
A deer wanders quietly in a church in France.
This is the purest, most enchanting and most aesthetic manifestation.
(Source: intoyoureyesmyfaceremains)
Tintoretto c. 1598-1602
Penitent Magdalene (details)
The telegram (detail), 1894.
oil on canvas
Luisa Max-Ehrlerová