On [:] Interior | Adolf Loos, 1870-1933
Adolf Loos, Hugo Semler's Apartment, 1931-33 “It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design...
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On [:] Behind | Honoré de Balzac, 1835
Gustav Klimt, Old Italian Art (detail), 1891 “Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.” Honoré de Balzac, Le Père...
On [:] Modesty | Margaret Atwood, 1985
Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1988 . “Modesty is invisibity. Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be penetrated.”...
On [:] Lie | Leonid Andreyev, 1919
Foldout head. The anatomy of the human head and neck, 1895 . “And what kind of a liar is he...
On [:] Equality | Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
Jovcho Savov, Aegean Guernica, 2015 . “The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer...
On [:] Destination | Henry Miller, 1957
1920s . “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller, Big Sur and...
On [:] Subjective | Marcel Proust, 1871-1922
George Kotsonis, Leda and the swan, 1978 . “No doubt, few people understand either the purely subjective nature of the...
On [:] Knowledge | Paracelsus, 1493-1541
Vivian Maier, Self portrait, Chicago, 1975 “He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He...
On [:] Be | Kurt Vonnegut, 1962
E.L.T. Mesens – Mask to be used for insulting Aesthetes (collage, 1929) . “We are what we pretend to be,...
On [:] How | Margaret Mead, 1901-78
Irina Shevandronova, The Children of a Country Doctor, 1964 . “Children must be taught how to think, not what to...