“The acquisition of a work of art represents the most extreme form of rapprochement. But, even with the true collector, for whom acquisition means more than mere prestige, buying the work is no more than a substitute act in the face of impossibility of entering into a mystic union with the beautiful object. At best, it offers the owner the ability to dispose of the object fully and with impunity, to appropriate it though the legitimate experience of ‘tactile values’, and even to destroy it. Its purchase is a self-contradictory attempt to go beyond the unrequited love the work permits. The sense of expectation provoked by the beautiful object is meant to be resolved in a state of supreme satisfaction: the owner wants to salvage the ‘disinterested pleasure’ of a fleeting affair and to sanctify it as a form of marriage in order to lend it permanence.”

Dealers in Beauty (Florence 1900), Bernd Roeck (tr. Stewart Spencer)

sovietcop:

pandora (& her box) / figures of myth

midnightsorrow:

”these days everyone wants to be famous. when I was younger I didn’t want to be famous at all. all I wanted was to be a stage actor. and I happened to get famous. that’s something very different, I guess. I can’t believe that you would ever want to be famous, I just don’t believe in it at all. being famous, what does it even mean? of course I experienced many great things thanks to being famous, but sometimes there are moments when I really think; I wish no one knew me, I wish I could do whatever I wanted to do and not care about anything. so it definitely has a downside”

carice van houten / linda magazine [x]