You're empty but clever. Your half-lies are so refined that they look like truth.

— Through a Glass Darkly; dir. by Ingmar Bergman in 1961

Helmut Berger; 2014

I had the greatest difficulty in explaining to people that there is no hidden, coded meaning in the film, nothing beyond the desire to tell the truth. Often my assurances provoked incredulity and even disappointment. Some people evidently wanted more: They needed arcane symbols, secret meanings. They were not accustomed to the poetics of the cinema image.

— Andrei Tarkovsky; on Mirror

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

— Charles Bukowski

Why must art be static?

— Alexander Calder

Gregor Schneider realisiert für die Ruhrtriennale im Kunstmuseum Bochum eine neue Arbeit. Unter dem Titel KUNSTMUSEUM setzt er sich mit dem Ort und der Funktion des Kunstmuseums auseinander. Nach der Absage seines für das Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg vorgesehenen Raumkunst- werkes totlast durch den Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Duisburg ist die kurzfristige Realisierung in Bochum ein großer Erfolg.

— Ruhrtriennale; KUNSTMUSEUM

Anna Karina

Le Petit Soldat, dir. by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960

You look nicer without makeup.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

From Hamburg; with love ...

I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.

— Charles Bukowski

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

— Hermann Hesse

She recalled the previous day and, smiling, she realized how things are connected. She felt that these events aren't connected by accident, but there's an indescribably beautiful meaning bridging them.

— László Krasznahorkai

Sátántangó, directed by Béla Tarr in 1994

From Paris; with love ...

I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

— Charles Bukowski

Joana Linda | 2012

Intimacy is not entirely physical. In fact, it can have no physical interaction at all. For an intimate relationship to take place, allow someone into your thoughts. Let them hold and caress your feelings. Let them be intimate with your mind. Allow for the emotional intimacy to be the reason for passion to be bred. Now that is intimacy that is long lasting.

— Upendo Kupita Juu

Helge Schneider | Buddy Casino

Es gibt Reis, Baby, Helge Schneider & Hardcore, 1993

Sag' Deinen Eltern nichts davon, es ist besser so.

When we don't understand someone, we fall in love with them.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Alberto Contador quits the 101st Tour de France ...

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

— Anselm Kiefer

It is with great sadness that the gallery
announces the passing of On Kawara.

— David Zwirner

I AM STILL ALIVE

On Kawara

* January 2, 1933 - † June, 2014

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Kunst als Raum. Raum als Umgebung. Umgebung als Ereignis. Ereignis als Bild. Bild als Leben. Leben als Kunst.

— Christoph Schlingensief

Late Spring, dir. by Yasujirō Ozu in 1949

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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Frans Zwartjes | Spectator | 1970

Stadt Duisburg lehnt Kunstinstallation von Gregor Schneider für die Ruhrtriennale im Lehmbruck Museum ab.

— Ruhrtriennale; Pressemitteilung

Stay strong; Tour de France 2014

It's part of the experience of walking around the space in which the art appears — you implicate yourself in the space, and the experience is in you, not in the frame or on the wall.

— Richard Serra

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

— Charles Bukowski