Alphabetarion # Defend | Alain de Botton
Helen Marden, Untitled “The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by howwe've opted to defend ourselves against...
Helen Marden, Untitled “The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by howwe've opted to defend ourselves against...
John Zabawa “You don't need to belong to one another in order to love one another.” Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is...
Jacek Sienicki, Portrait, 1992 “I think a lot of what we learn about others isn’t what they tell us.It’s what...
Alexander Calder, Kites, 1945 “Children are like kitesYou spend years trying to get them off the ground.You run with them...
Tyler Hobbs, Return to Zero 0.7, 2021 “Life is illusion, disillusionment is destruction.” Karl Jaspers, Tragedy is not enough, 1952
Yoon Hyup, Mosaic City, 2020 “There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a...
Timothy Harney, When I Know I'm Not Going to Sleep, 2013 “She could not sleep. She could not say the...
Pius Fox “Ignorance is the parent of fear.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale, 1851
Clyfford Still “A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.” Gideon Levy
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jailbirds, 1983 “A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul,who is punished for his poverty.” Thomas Bernhard, Prose, 1967...