Kurt Seligmann , The Dance , 1940

Jackson Pollock , Lucifer , 1947

"Only the man who strives to fail deserves our trust: if he succeeds in this he will have killed the monster, the monster he was as long as he was concerned to act, to triumph. We progress only to the detriment of our purity, that summa of our setbacks. Sustained, traversed by an impulse toward corruption, our actions preclude us from paradise, fortify our failure, our fidelity to the world: no movement forward which does not excite and consolidate in us the old perversion of existence." ~ Emil Cioran

Edward Hopper, Automat , 1927

"This is fucked up"

Thom Yorke Black Swan

Remedios Varo, Insomnio I , 1947

Francis Picabia , The Two Friends , 1941

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.” ~ Denis Diderot

Tell me, Atlas. What is heavier:
The world or its people's hearts? ~ Darshana Suresh

Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe, 1876

John Trumbull, Joshua at the Battle of Ai - Attended by Death, 1840

Magnus Enckell , Melancholy, 1895

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson , Scene from a Deluge , 1806

Takasawa Keiichi, Woman Burning Incense , 1970's

”The older you get...the deeper the love you need.” ~ Leonard Cohen

Béla Czene , Girl Reading , 1972

Félix Vallotton, Le bibliophile, 1911

Heinrich Lossow , The Sin , 1880