Knight At The Crossroads By Viktor Vasnetsov (1882)

writing is so fun

― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

It seemed to me that I had dreamt about her once, when I was a boy or a teenager: a dream with the scent of orange trees in blossom.

– Agustín Cadena, from “Murillo Park,” Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (Small Beer Press, 2011)

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

— Orson Rega  

what are three thousand things you associate with me

me reblogging this as a stone

“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one’s nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.”

— The Alexiad, written by Anna Komnene, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1148.

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan More info: Website | Instagram…

several people shared this on twitter so I'm going to post it here. absolutely astounding couple of sentences

hi i hope you don't mind me asking! who are some of the artists that inspire your work and if any art movements too, which ones? i absolutely adore your work and wanna dive into the artists that inspire you because you fill me with so much inspiration 💫

Duilio Cambellotti

Paul Jouve

Norbertine Bresslern-Roth

J. C. Leyendecker

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Harry Clarke

Nico Marlet

Mike Mignola

Carl Otto Czeschka

Alphonse Mucha

Klaus Haapaniemi

Sanna Annukka

Takato Yamamoto

Ivan Bilibin

Gennady Pavlishin

Evgeni Rachev

Ludvig Hohlwein

Tove Jansson

Just to name a few that have influenced me a lot and continue to live in my head permanently! Sorry about the long post, I thought it'd be helpful if I included examples.

My favorite art movement is art nouveau, I like poster art and antique fairytale illustrations a lot, and in terms of art history I'm most interested in renaissance, early baroque and gloomy 19th century romanticism.