“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Wilhelm Schmurr. Portrait of Werner Heuser, 1902.
My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.- Jane Birkin
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Source: tragedyherself, via rockabellariot)
We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?
—Arthur Machen (via atelierellsworth)
Hermann Nitsch: “I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability would be on another level….Thus, art can consist of a crime.” Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”
Desperate Attempt to Save Andy Warhol from Oblivion by Marcel Mariën, 1989
Printed papers and ink on card
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(via darksilenceinsuburbia)
Joseph Haynes (English, 1760-1829) after John Hamilton Mortimer (English, 1741-1779). Death on a Pale Horse, 1784, after the drawing of 1775
Andy Warhol
