too much...

"TOO MUCH POSITIVE CAN BE DETRIMENTAL. 

TOO MUCH NEGATIVE CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE."

~   ERIK ERIKSON 

unknown source, anyone- via here

How do you...

"HOW DO YOU PICK UP THE THREADS OF AN OLD LIFE? 

HOW DO YOU GO ON WHEN IN YOUR HEART YOU BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND… 

THERE IS NO GOING BACK?"

~   THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003), Dir. PETER JACKSON
ASAGI NATSUME
“a Love Song -中庭-” 50F(91x117cm), oil on canvas, 2012-13

the mind...

"THE PENDULUM OF THE MIND OSCILLATES BETWEEN SENSE AND NONSENSE, NOT BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG."

~   C.G. JUNG (via WORDSNQUOTES)

MIGUEL LAINO. Fugaz realidad, k-holes and fragmented reality and right back to right now. 

voices...

 NEVER ARE VOICES 

SO BEAUTIFUL 

AS ON A WINTER'S EVENING.

- Virginia Woolf

Auguste Rodin

I mourn...

"I MOURN
THE FLOWER
I COULD HAVE BEEN
IF MY ROOTS
HAD NEVER
BEEN UPROOTED."

~   Foreigner, Pavana

cy twombly

souvenir d’arros- 1990

personal….

"IF THEY DON’T KNOW YOU PERSONALLY, DON’T TAKE IT PERSONAL."

~   Khleo Thomas

asagi natsume

Night Walk….

And the night smells like snow.

Walking home for a moment

you almost believe you could start again.

And an intense love rushes to your heart,

and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.

— Franz Wright, closing lines to “Night Walk” from God’s Silence
C. Maxwell Morris

the shadow of the wind...

 
I was raised among books,
making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind 

INSOMNIA. Técnica mixta. 201, Joseba Eskubi

courage….

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
— Anaïs Nin
Brad Kunkle

Love is that...

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

— Robert A. Heinlein,  Stranger in a Strange Land 

Antony Gormley

a friend...

A friend is one that knows you as you are,

understands where you have been, 
accepts what you have become,

and still, gently allows you to grow.

william shakespeare
François Henri Galland

a thread through a needle...

Your absence has gone through me

like a thread through a needle 

everything i do is stitched with its colour.

w.s. merwin, 'separation'
Jennis Li Cheng Tien

if...

marc johns

be still...

be still

stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

lao tzu 

andrea cc

katinka lampe

i love katinka lampe's paintings

carly waito

it's hard to believe that these... are actually paintings. carly waito's
small oil paintings indulge a lifelong fascination with the natural world.
her  blog is full of inspiration and loveliness.

via odessamay

can you hear it now?

can you hear it now?

the sound of my smile breaking

and lighting me up.

tyler knott gregson

daniel brustlein

claire falkenberg

claire falkenberg paints oil on large-scale landscape photographs,

shifting a static moment to an active one.

via the jealous curator

nadia duvall

nadia duvall's modulation of a thin layer of paint in water + manipulted through the percise bodily movements of nadia, relinquishes as the artist second skin, via monomalist

steven seinberg

to say that steven seinberg is precocious with the language of painting 
would be an understatement,
his vocabulary of paint applications + references are remarkable.
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