On [:] A searcher | Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010
Louise Bourgeois, The Runaway Girl, 1938 “I am a searcher… I always was… and I still am… searching for the...
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On [:] Alone | Heinrich von Kleist, 1810
Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea, 1808–10 “How wonderful it is to sit completely alone by the...
On [:] The Night | Guy De Maupassant, 1887
Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, 1921 “I love the night with a passion. I love it as one loves one’s...
On [:] The moon | Sylvia Plath / Max Ernst / Yiannis Moralis
Max Ernst, Humboldt Current, 1951-1952 "If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something...
On [:] Memory | Luis Bunuel, 1983
Salvador Dali: Luis Buñuel con un torero, 1923 "You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits...
On [:] Another | Samuel Beckett, 1951
Samuel Beckett’s notebook ''I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him....
On [:] Patience | Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882
Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche by Edvard Munch One must learn to love. — This is what happens to...
On [:] The horror and the ecstasy | Charles Baudelaire, 1865
Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1849 . “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings,...
On [:] Semi-darkness | Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1950
Caspar David Friedrich, Mondaufgang am Meer, 1822 “Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish...
On [:] A foolish expedient | George Bernard Shaw, 1880
George Bernard Shaw and his wife playing chess, 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle...