Spurr-of-the-Moment

La perle (Henri d’Ursel, 1929)

Andrea Torres Balaguer

Natalie Portman and Greta Gerwig in Jackie (2016) Directed by Pablo Larraín

Medium: oil

Andre Kertesz

An optical device made between 1825 and 1870 with a miniature garden scene.

Palm

Claude Monet

In 1883 Monet moved from the northwest of Paris to Giverny where he lived until his death. Adjacent to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style. — The National Gallery, UK The above image, courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden, is based on a black-and-white photograph from The New York Times, dated 1922.

Taylr Anne

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via wordsnquotes)

“The character has emboldened me to be much less inhibited and to take on a lot of the things that the TV Larry David does. If I’m at a dinner party and I want to go home, I can go, before dessert, “OK, I’ve had enough. All right, I’m gonna go.” And nobody would be shocked to hear me say it, whereas I could never do that before Curb. And now people are not surprised and they kind of expect it.”