install theme
flaming—youth: this
transparadise: “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” - Frida Kahlo
ryandonato: Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968, Acrylic on canvas, 8’ 11” x 6’ x 11”. Close’s goal was to translate photographic information into painted information. In his portraits, he deliberately avoided creative compositions, flattering lighting effects, and revealing facial expressions. 
ghostly-youth: nuclearharvest: Wound by Marefumi Komura 2005 ?
vintagegal: Salvador Dali in Paris (1964)
swag
ourmarilynmonroe: Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1956
nfaink: shhh, no tears, just dreams