Kees Scherer - Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Picasso. MOMA New York City 1959

Anonymous Artist, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1925-1928 🎨

Bookstore  (Reading Women)   -   Willy  Belinfante

Dutch, 1922-2014

Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm.

i'm taking a gothic literature class and I’m absolutely obsessed 

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

"To fly a rocketship, you need to be an optimist. No astronaut launches into space with their fingers crossed."

"The best antidote for fear is competence. If you can make yourself competent, then you're not just relying on fear, but you're actually a person who can do this thing. And if you are competent, not only can you do this thing, but you can relax while you're doing it."

- Chris Hadfield

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Frank Lloyd Wright / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City, 1939; image © Stephen Russell Shilling.

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

ig: herdrafts I’ve been reading so many ebooks during the lockdown that I’m almost get accustomed to them, despite I miss the feeling of printing papers under my fingertips. I often read in English because it appeal to me better but often I struggle when it comes to approach a book; regardless of genre, choosing what language you want to read, it has a great influence on the reading itself and perhaps on the outcome of the review. Translation sometimes can be better than the original version, maybe when you can’t enjoy the author’s writing you can read the same novel ‘touched’ by the translator work, but you can’t really understand the meaning of the prose or the difference of styles between an author to another, if you are interested in this aspect as well. In short, this was my ranting because often I can’t decide in what language to read.