“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm’s edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”
– Edvard Munch
Art – Orpheus by Melchior Lechter.
“To my amazement, I have heard that there are people who have never seen a gnome. I can’t help pitying these people. I am certain there must be something wrong with their eyesight.”
― Axel Munthe
Art by Hasse Bredenberg.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away. What will you find and give away?” – Pablo Picasso
Art tribute – Rene Magritte, The land of miracles, 1964
“There is anger and passion and love–and sometimes these three things are very much alike; often the same – in the writing of anything. Writing is a means of recovering and also of avenging. Words become the hooks by which you reach out to reclaim people and times and emotions.” – Arthur Miller
Art – Emil Holárek (1867-1919), An Artist’s dream.
“I like your letters like whiskey, and cherries, and smoke, and honey.”
Dylan Thomas, from a letter to Emily Holmes Coleman, 1937
Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst
“To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them – their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Art by Carel Lodewijk Dake.
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.” – Arthur Rimbaud
Art by Andrew Ferez.
“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Art by Armando Veve.
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” – Oscar Wilde
Art by Salvator Dali.
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Art by Charles Caryl Coleman.
