Jules Jacques (1866-1900), Dunes dans le grand Erg. Thank you les-sources-du-nil.
(Source: pppl.blog.lemonde.fr)
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
—Wendell Berry, from Given: Poems (Counterpoint, 2005)
Thank you, apoetreflects.
(Source: givemeflowerss, via chasingtailfeathers)
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.
Tom Robbins via: Whiskey River.
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950), Beach and Sea, May 1907. Thank you, les-sources-du-nil.
(Source: myspace.com)
Norman Smith | Late Western Light (pastel) (With thanks to chasingtailfeathers)
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
―Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Photograph:Frank Horvat, Balloons in the Subway, New York, 1984
from parabola-magazine:
(via tricycle-tumbles)
To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hill, or sea, or desert: to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silences with light. To pray and work in the morning and to labor in meditation in the evening when night falls upon that land and when the silence fills itself with darkness and with stars. This is a true and special vocation. There are few who are willing to belong completely to such silence, to let it soak into their bones, to breathe nothing but silence, to feed on silence, and to turn the very substance of their life into a living and vigilant silence.
—Thomas Merton
Photograph by Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952)
via: parabola-magazine.
Donald McLeish, Great Sphinx, Egypt
“In 1928 National Geographic Editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor wanted “outdated” photographs of the Great Sphinx of Giza—images made prior to excavation—removed from the archive. This 1921 photo by Donald McLeish survived and has been in the image collection for over 90 years.”
via: National Geographic
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
―Susan Sontag
Painting: Marc Chagall, Interior with Flowers, 1918
