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Something in me wants more. I can't rest.

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”

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staring at myself in the mirror wearing only tights and a bra and going “oh so I have the body of a slut that’s fun”

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Urban Time Capsule: Reinhart Wolf’s 1979 Lens on the Art Deco Majesty of New York’s Comcast Building

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I JUSSSTTTT WANNNTTTT A NERRRDDDD BOYFRIENDDDDDD WHYYYY HASNT HE SHOWN UP YETTTTT

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“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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sorry for being annoying i could kill myself right in front of you if you want

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— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)

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Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

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KYLE GALLNER as HUCKLEBERRY FINN Band of Robbers | 2015

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as each year goes by I feel more and more lost and also more and more like myself

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flintlock rifle with a twisted barrel and heart shaped bore (1765)

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don’t be confused by the cannibalism. I am actually a very sweet angel 🥰🫶🏻

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I was looked at, but I wasn't seen.

— Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding

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But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they’re not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it’s not because they’re not interesting. They just don’t feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don’t have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.

Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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Vincent van Gogh

Kingfisher by the Waterside

Paris, July-August 1887

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When people look at abstract art and go "uh I could make that"

Fuck, I wish you would!

I wish you would let this inspire you. I wish that seeing a piece of abstract art would move you to self expression.

I wish you would go to the craft store, buy a cheap canvas and some cheap paint and let yourself play with color and form just to see if you can.

I wish that there were more amateur painters, trying their hand at geometric abstraction and color field painting. That would be so fucking cool.

"I could make that" should be a joyous revelation, not a snarky dismissal.

You could make that? Holy shit. please. Please make that.

Jack Bush

Kenneth Noland

Piet Mondrain

Pat Lipsky

Joan Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler

Kikuo Saito

Marilyn Kirsch

Mark Rothko

Adolph Gottlieb