the contents page of Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins
say it with me—
“someday i’m going to have the life i’ve always dreamed of and i won’t let self doubt stop me”
Almond Blossoms (Vincent van Gogh, 1890)
Almond Blossoms is from a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by van Gogh in southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh, as they represented awakening and hope.
Her (2013) dir. Spike Jonze
