Irving Penn // Gianfranco Ferre for Dior - 1993
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“I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.” — — Vita Sackville West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 21 January 1926.
“All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead, we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
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“I like very different type of people, different type of beauty, different type of living.” - Jean Paul Gaultier
Robert Mapplethorpe
“Androgynous nature lies in every male and female. Although it is rooted in antiquity, it contains a powerful message for our own time. Spiritual perfection consists precisely in rediscovering one’s androgynous nature.” STEVEN ARNOLD
Duane Michals
Alexander McQueen with skull and cigarettes, Clerkenwell, London, 2009
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” — Arundhati Roy (via hodgepodgemishmash)
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by Richard Avedon, 1995