Sometimes, If You’re Lucky, There Will Be A Tree Outside Your Bedroom Window. It Is Very Important

Girl Sketching (c. 1810). Sir Henry Raeburn (Scotland, Romanticism, 1756-1823). Oil on canvas. Sudley House, National Museums, Liverpool.

The identity of the girl is unknown. She is wearing a simple muslin dress gathered under the bust, typical of the Regency period. She looks up from her sketch with a dreamy expression. There is an almost throwaway quality about the way the paint is applied. This studied informality, together with the restrained colour and soft yet naturalistic fall of light, are characteristic of the artist.

must i pursue a career? is it not enough to be obsessed with classic literature, books museums and old records?

“I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”

- Oscar Wilde

I got out and got drenched in pleasant sunshine

O’ dear God, how beautiful are your creations that painters wanted to immortalise it for centuries.

I hope you find yourself in the books you read

“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”

— John Green (via nightlyquotes)

date a boy who will listen to you rant about your interests for hours because he loves you that much

you are not incompatible with this world: you have a place in this planet (that you will find) and you have innate value too, just by being you