I Have No Idea How Artists Spend Months, YEARS On Paintings. If My Drawing Doesn't Look Exactly As I

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married

Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

the gallery of great battles; versailles, paris

Hallwylska Museet. x

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

~ Joseph Campbell

06.12.19 Manchester

“There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.” - Dead Poets Society

Donna Tartt from The Secret History

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

-Oscar Wilde

23.01.20 Venezia

Allen Ginsberg: Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever. And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you. They become part of who you are...

Lucien Carr: ...or they destroy you.