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…To seek out, to study, to immerse oneself in, surround oneself with, beauty; to be conscious of one’s dependence upon those who create it or, like the performing musician, re-create it.
Very little matters apart from this.
— Joyce Carol Oates, from a journal entry
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Comtesse Consuelo Crespi by Henry Clarke, 1952
Temperley London
London Fashion Week
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“He waited for you all night long.
Go run to him, go run.
I’ll finish up my winter song,
For you. It’s almost done.”
— from Leonard Cohen’s “Antique Song” (from The Flame)
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H.D., from “Cities” (Collected Poems, 1925)
Savannah Lowery by MK Sadler | amy osaba
Agnès B
Paris Fashion Week
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Shchedrin Semyon Fiodorovich
“Island in the Large Pond in the Park in Tsarskoye Selo” (1777)
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A FAVOUR 1896 by Edmond Leighton
Julia Morozova.
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Valentin Yudashkin
Paris Fashion Week
“True elegance is in the mind.”
– Diana Vreeland
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Detail of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1607)
Agnès B
Paris Fashion Week
“This happened or maybe it did not.
The time is long past and much is forgot.”
— “Once Upon a Time” from around the world
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