The Fantastic in Art & Fiction: a Collection of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections

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Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen (via love-and-squalor)
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Ray Bradbury (via love-and-squalor) (via my-ear-trumpet)
Evan Benjamin Harris

Evan Benjamin Harris

Evan Benjamin Harris

Evan Benjamin Harris

Bill Carman on Escape Into Life

Bill Carman on Escape Into Life

grimmcat: Mariann Johansen-Ellis | Escape Into Life

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Mariann Johansen-Ellis | Escape Into Life

Mark Ryden

Mark Ryden

Mark Wagner; dollar bill art

Mark Wagner; dollar bill art

The artist Margo Selski - The Mermaid

The artist Margo Selski - The Mermaid

oldbookillustrations: Gulliver Seizes the Enemy’s Fleet Arthur Rackham, from Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift, London, 1899. Via archive.org.

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Gulliver Seizes the Enemy’s Fleet

Arthur Rackham, from Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift, London, 1899.
Via archive.org.

grimmcat via i spy: pistachio ice cream

grimmcat via i spy: pistachio ice cream

oldbookillustrations: After the Festa - David Law; from The Magazine of Art, London, 1893. Via archive.org.

oldbookillustrations:

After the Festa - David Law; from The Magazine of Art, London, 1893.
Via archive.org.