The Head of My Pin

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philamuseum: Happy Birthday to Jasper Johns, who will be a major part of our Dancing Around the Bride show this October. Image: Dancers on a Plane, 1979. Jasper Johns, American, b. 1930. Oil on canvas with objects, 77 7/8 x 64 inches (197.8 x 162.6 cm). Collection of the artist. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

philamuseum:

Happy Birthday to Jasper Johns, who will be a major part of our Dancing Around the Bride show this October.

Image: Dancers on a Plane, 1979. Jasper Johns, American, b. 1930. Oil on canvas with objects, 77 7/8 x 64 inches (197.8 x 162.6 cm). Collection of the artist. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have ‘come down in the world’ are to be pitied above all others.

—Down and Out In Paris and London, George Orwell (via philphys)

antonio-m: Hercules fighting Achelous Francoise-Joseph Bosio, 1824Musée du Louvre, Parisbronze

antonio-m:

Hercules fighting Achelous
Francoise-Joseph Bosio, 1824
Musée du Louvre, Paris
bronze

(via cavetocanvas)