turnofthecentury:

Gustav Klimt. Portrait of Helene Klimt. 1898.
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turnofthecentury:

Gustav Klimt. Portrait of Helene Klimt. 1898.

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frost-at-midnight:

Femme à côté d’un échiquier, 1928, oil on canvas -Matisse

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live… the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas (via myserendipities)
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John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (1883-84) 
via Metropolitan Museum of Art 

The Stranger (La Extranjera)

La extranjera


Habla con dejo de sus mares bárbaros,
con no sé qué algas y no sé qué arenas;
reza oración a dios sin bulto y peso,
envejecida como si muriera.
Ese huerto nuestro que nos hizo extraño,
ha puesto cactus y zarpadas hierbas.

Alienta del resuello del desierto
y ha amado con pasión de que blanquea,
que nunca cuenta y que si nos contase
sería como el mapa de otra estrella.

Vivirá entre nosotros ochenta años,
pero siempre será como si llega,
hablando lengua que jadea y gime
y que le entienden sólo bestezuelas.
Y va a morirse en medio de nosotros,
en una noche en la que más padezca,
con sólo su destino por almohada,
de una muerte callada y extranjera.

Gabriela Mistral

The stranger

She speaks in her way of her savage seas
With unknown algae and unknown sands;
She prays to a formless, weightless God,
Aged, as if dying.
In our garden now so strange,
She has planted cactus and alien grass.

The desert zephyr fills her with its breath
And she has loved with a fierce, white passion
She never speaks of, for if she were to tell
It would be like the face of unknown stars.

Among us she may live for eighty years,
Yet always as if newly come,
Speaking a tongue that plants and whines
Only by tiny creatures understood.
And she will die here in our midst
One night of utmost suffering,
With only her fate as a pillow,
And death, silent and strange. 

Translated by Helene Masslo Anderson (via spanish poems)

Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of an Unknown Man Clasping a Hand from a Cloud, Dated 1588, Victoria & Albert Museum

Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of an Unknown Man Clasping a Hand from a Cloud, Dated 1588, Victoria & Albert Museum

I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain (via myserendipities)
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Aleksandr Pushkin (via nihilnoetia) (via gottfried)
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Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

fromthemountains:

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  1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  3. Follow the three Rs:
    1. Respect for self
    2. Respect for others
    3. Responsibility for all your actions.
  4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
  5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
  6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
  8. Spend some time alone every day.
  9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
  12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
  13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
  14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  15. Be gentle with the earth.
  16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
  18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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ontheborderland:

AMPLE make this bed.    
Make this bed with awe;    
In it wait till judgment break    
Excellent and fair.    

Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;    
Let no sunrise’ yellow noise    
Interrupt this ground.

—Emily Dickinson

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hoopingll:

marsiouxpial:

Phoenix and Rukh (via ambrett)

“The rukh (or roc) was a mythological bird and enemy of elephants (1600s). The rukh is of Persian origin (and appears in the tales of Sinbad the Sailor) but may ultimately be derived from Garuda.”

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How art can express phenomena in a way that data alone cannot (via SEED)

“Synesthesia is a fascinating condition in which inputs to one sensory pathway — such as music or shapes — produce sensations in a different sensory modality. Synesthetes most commonly associate letters and numbers with certain colors, but they may also “see” music, “taste” words, or “see” flavors….

Art can give us “normals” a small window into the synesthete’s world. Even if we don’t experience numbers as colors or sounds, we can gaze at Charles Delmuth’s [sic] brassy I Saw the Figure Five in Gold (inspired by a William Carlos Williams poem) and begin to intuit what the synesthete’s experience must be like. We pick up hints of music and movement in the brushstrokes of great paintings, like Van Gogh’s writhing, rhythmic Starry Night. Symphonies can evoke colors, tastes, even odors for us. While these imaginative experiences and sensory metaphors are not true synesthesia, they are what makes art powerful, allowing it to seize our attention and wrest every sense into engagement. Artists strive to blur the borders between the senses, generating fruitful, messy, unanticipated connections between parts of the mind that usually don’t communicate. In that sense, art mimics synesthesia.” - Jessica Palmer read more

turnofthecentury:

Children from Argentina

RPPC. 
Trajeta “Lidia”, L. Ozores y Cia, B. Mitre,1886, Buenos Aires

via celestetumulte

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Veronese , Temptation of Saint Anthony 
Caen, Musée des Beaux-arts