As a child, I was always searching for the meaning of it all, the big Why; and my father always said that there is no one big purpose but I had the most ripe orange today and kissed my cat goodnight, I think that's enough purpose for a day.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned
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Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’
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dead poets society changed my life because john keating is so right. i read and write poetry because i’m a member of the human race. i do need to seize the day. words and ideas do change the world. i am filled with passion.
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life film imitates art
The Kiss, Gustav Klimt | Shutter Island, dir. Martin Scorcese | Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth | Bad Dreams, dir. Andrew Fleming | Prisoners Exercising, Vincent Van Gogh | A Clockwork Orange dir. Stanley Kubrick | The Night Café, Vincent Van Gogh | Lust for Life, dir. Vincente Minnelli | Nighthawks, Edward Hopper | Pennies from Heaven dir. Herbert Ross | The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci | Viridiana, dir. Luis Buñuel | Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jacques-Louis David | Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola
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