On [:] A Garden | Charlotte Brontë, 1853
August Macke, Our garden with Blooming Discounts, 1912 ''Behind the house at the Rue Fossette there was a garden —...
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On [:] Illusions | Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973
Optical illusion, 1850s "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we...
On [:] An Aphorism | Karl Kraus, 1909
Robert Ryman - Untitled (1965) "An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a...
On [:] The Use of a Book | Lewis Carroll, 1865
Gerardo Sacristán Torralba, Scrambled books, Study of light, 1939 "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures...
On [:] A Savage intuition | Clarice Lispector, 1973
Joseph Wright, Maria, from Sterne, 1777 "I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself." Clarice Lispector, The Stream of...
On [:] Trample | James Joyce
Grete Marks (1899-1990), The Cacti "People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus. " James Joyce
On [:] Adaptation | Eugene Delacroix, 1798 – 1863
Eugene Delacroix, The Porte d'Amont, Etretat, 1849 "Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand:...
On [:] A single unaccompanied note | Virginia Woolf, 1923-28
Harold Knight, The Reader, 1910 “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you...
On [:] Night / James Turrell
Hiram Mattison, Illustration from A high-school astronomy, 1859"I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. " . James Turrell,...
On [:] Creativity / The Hands of Max Ernst | Josef Breitenbach, 1942
Josef Breitenbach, The hands of Max Ernst, 1942 "Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from...