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"But I don't want comfort... I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

The findings of an art history student with a love of art, feminism, equality, opera, music in general, religion, mythology, sociology, medieval manuscripts, books, the body, and human love of all sorts.

Is it not curious how clearly, how distinctly we sense our life when we watch heave black clouds rushing past the moon, when we see their edges gilded by the moon or see them swallowing the moon altogether? It then seems to us as if we could write the story of our lives in images such as these.

Philipp Otto Runge, a Romantic German painter, in a letter to his brother Daniel dated March 9th, 1802. He believed that the highest expression of the divine in art was achieved in the painting of nature and landscapes. (via wordstoguidelife)