The Abstract Diaries

" Painting is a method of representation. One must not imitate what one wants to create. "

Georges Braque (via 23rd-block)

#art #quote #painting #artist #georges braque

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show."

Andrew Wyeth (via 23rd-block)

#quote #andrew wyeth #prose #lit #faved #art

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"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

Edvard Munch (via 23rd-block)

(Source: wordsinbooks, via 23rd-block)

#edvard munch #quote #faved #lit

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"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via 23rd-block)

(Source: clockwerksoul, via 23rd-block)

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oldbookillustrations:

A tall black figure, which a belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the shadows.

François Flameng, illustration to Les Misérables, from Illustration des oeuvres complètes de Victor Hugo vol. 3 Paris, 1885.

(Source: archive.org)

(via 23rd-block)

#f. flameng #v. hugo #illustrations to the complete works of victor hugo #france #19th century #etching

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