Johannes Vermeer, View of Houses in Delft, aka 'The Little Street', c.1660

I think in the new century we will all be insane.

—Tony Kushner

“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won’t anymore, And who always will. So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.”

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

notte

Milano

#OTD 1820 Shelley writes

'Keats, I hope, is going to show himself a great poet; like the sun, to burst through the clouds'

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

'The Soup',c.1903
Pablo Picasso(Spain,1881-1973)
oil on canvas,38.5 x 46.0 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario,Canada

Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Mother and Child, Maternité or The Sad Mother, 1901
Oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge

“C'est ça l'amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier, sans le moindre désir d'obtenir quoi que ce soit en retour.”

Albert Camus

Quotes that go harder in Latin.

The Daily Rothko

Les dessins de Tiepolo

Giambattista Tiepolo

chalk and crayon drawings

‘Memory is such a shifty and shifting process, constantly duping us. What we are remembering is not just the painting itself but its effect on us.’

Julian Barnes on art and memory: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Joseph Beuys •
Aufbau, 1977

Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum (1634), by Claude Lorrain

William Orpen's picture from 1908 features his wife Grace with Mabel Nicholson, the wife of the artist William Nicholson at Digby Cave
or Smuggler's Cave, in Kingsgate Bay between Margate and Broadstairs in Kent. The cave was originally linked by a trap door to the cellars of

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
~R. Arnold

First light at York Minster this morning.

Eleonora di Toledo from the studio of Agnolo Bronzino c. 1562-72 (The Wallace Collection)

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”
Santiago Ramon y Cajal🖤 #nn