January 2012
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...
– Oscar Wilde
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Dancers in Blue by Edgar Degas.
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I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via savinasays)
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He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those...
– The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via atomos)
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If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will...
– Jeaniene Frost (via makelovetothemoon)
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being...
– Plato (via l00kingwonderland)
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The Walk, Woman with a Parasol
l00kingwonderland:
This is one of my favourite paintings by Monet. It’s called “The Walk, Woman with a Parasol”
I love how he gives an ethereal aspect to the woman, almost as if she could disappear into thin air. The sky reminds me of Van Gogh’s paintings (Post-Impressionism), although I like better Impressionism.
Curious fact: The woman and the boy are Monet’s wife and son!
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First Post
Hello! This blog will be my artsy corner in tumblr, where I’ll be able to have a nice archive related to paintings, photography, literature… and who knows what else.
I don’t pretend to have a great knowledge of art (just had a class of Art & Culture in high school a while ago), but I do love to learn, and this subject has been of my interest these last years. So if you have...