To be immortal and then die

I want to read only what I’ll want to reread—the definition of a book worth reading once.
Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)

thedoppelganger:

Daisies, Vera Chytilová, 1966

rosswolfe:

bottlerockt:

This is not a photograph of lovers, this is a 400 year old marble statue of Pluto and Proserpina. Mind blown.

Bernini, marble into flesh.

amospoe:

jimm morrison, just a kid
(dangerous minds)

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dalí, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1987) by Pierre Cabanne (via divinedali)

balletshoesandbobbypins:

#Ballet class in Russia during the war. You can’t stop #ballerinas from wanting class! #dance #dancehistory #ballethistory

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque, born on this day in 1882. (via sfmoma)

nicoonmars:

JOHN STEZAKER Untitled, 1982