In Deutschland, wo viele Menschen leben, arbeiten und es schwer haben, mit ihren Gefühlen zurechtzukommen, sucht ein Mann nach Zärtlichkeit und Liebe. Auf dieser Suche wurde er so schwer verletzt, dass er beschloss, in Zukunft keinem Menschen mehr zu trauen. Monarch ist Jahrgang 1939. Er ist einer aus der Generation, die im Krieg geboren und nach der Niederlage zur Schule gegangen sind. Nach der kleinkarierten Verbissenheit der Nazis kamen die Amis mit Eiscreme, Kaugummi, Rock'n Roll, Nylons, Coca-Cola und dem Einarmigen Banditen. Immer mehr Menschen arbeiteten an Maschinen und in Fabriken. Da sagte sich Monarch: Wenn ich schon an einer Maschine arbeiten soll, dann an einer, mit der ich spielen kann.

— Monarch

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Tuesday: Nothing. Existed.

— Jean Paul Sartre

There are few images to be found. One has to dig for them like an archaeologist. One has to search through this ravaged landscape to find anything at all. I see so few people today who dare to address our lack of adequate images. We absolutely need images in tune with our civilization, images that resonate with what is deepest within us.

— Werner Herzog

Any landscape is a state of mind.

— Henri-Frederic Amiel

Reinhard Krause | Am Ruhrschnellweg | 1984

August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

— Jack Kerouac

Spatial images [Raumbilder] are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of these images can be deciphered, one finds the basis of social reality.

— Siegfried Kracauer

Never try to convey your idea to the audience — it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

— Noam Chomsky

Alweg Monorail

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

— Bob Moawad

Gropiusallee

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

— William Gibson

GDR Airforce

There is a difference between people who are smart and people who get good grades ...

Wer mich beleidigt, bestimme ich.

— Klaus Kinski

I found that every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.

— Brian Tracy

Die Kunst der Gesellschaft steht für staatliche Dienstleistungen nicht zur Verfügung. Ihre Phantasie ist einsam, häufig staatenlos oder delinquent. Kein Politiker wird sie je zum Sprechen bringen. Kunst ist das Hoheitsgebiet von Subjektivität und Erinnerung, und wenn sie glückt, schenkt sie die Erfahrung der Existenz, aber als Krise. Ihre Themen, ihr langes Gedächtnis stiften keinen wetterfesten Sinn, sondern beunruhigen den etablierten.

— Thomas Assheuer

My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams - like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

— Hermann Hesse

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People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

— Charles Bukowski

Simon Ungers, Autonomy and Dialogue, 2005

Bobby Fischer in Iceland, 1972

Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf | Deutscher Pavillon | 1958

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

— Charles Bukowski

This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your mental structure. If we remember what Kafka writes about his Castle, we get a sense of it. Cities really are mental conditions.

— Ai Weiwei

East Berlin

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

— Jean Paul Sartre