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that high school sketch my friend held onto. graphite and paper

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Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

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The Mountain Goats, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1

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Francis Bacon, ‘Painting’, oil and pastel on linen, 1946, collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchase, 1948, the first work by Francis Bacon to enter a major public collection

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Current status: obsessing over Hope Gangloff’s illustrations.

(via Elizabeth on Pinterest)

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“Have you ached for the world? You stare back into me until I exist—”

— What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence, Michael Wasson

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The Van Gogh Blues

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“To say a feeling, an impression is to diminish it — expel it. But sometimes feelings are too strong: passions, obsessions. Like romantic love. Or grief. Then one needs to speak, or one would burst.”

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: “August, 1964”

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918

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the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath // little father, li-young lee // dostoevsky and parricide, sigmund freud // forest, crystal vega-huerta // the pulling, sharon olds // salt water, peter campion // learning late letters, quyên nguyễn-hoàng // the woods, daughter // the cubist painters, guillaume apollinaire // deathwatch, michael ryan.

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— written by Donna Tartt, from The Secret History (pages 6-12), originally published c. 1992

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Henry James  2. Vincent van Gogh  3. Rainer Maria Rilke

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Vincent Van Gogh, Cypresses (details)

1889

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Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

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