Tag: art

“For Plato, colour was as dangerous a narcotic as poetry. He wanted both out of the republic. He called painters “mixers and grinders of multi-coloured drugs,” and colour itself a form of pharmakon. The religious zealots of the Reformation felt similarly: they smashed the stained glass windows of churches, thinking them idolatrous, degenerate.”
— Maggie Nelson, Bluets (via thebluesthour)
Richard Lauchert —
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Consort of Great-Britain. detail. 1863
“…there’s nothing like a kiss long and hot down to your soul…”
— James Joyce, from The Complete Works; “Ulysses,” (edited excerpt)
















