#blackandwhite #noir #foggynights

#art #saint&sinner #thevirginandthewhore

Frank Papé illustration for Thaïs, Anatole France, 1890

#candelight #lightinthedark #bythesea #lonely

A statue in the floodwater of the Moson branch of River Danube in Gyor, 120 km west of Budapest, Hungary, on June 6, 2013. The River Danube is expected to peak on June 10 in Budapest, close to its highest level ever, 25 cm higher than the record levels of 2006.

from a reprint of the 1976 picture book Takeru by Masakane Yonekura

Explodingly Yours, Chen Chen

Pour into what I know will not be filled.

𝙸 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝙸’𝚖 𝙾𝚔𝚊𝚢

𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝙸’𝚖 𝚘𝚔𝚊𝚢,

𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚋 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘

𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛

𝚊𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠

𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]

#sculpture #art #darkacademia

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680); Italian sculptor and architect.

“What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini is to sculpture[…]” Katherine Eustace, 2011