Sagen Sie jetzt nichts, Sophie Rois

I am free and that is why I am lost.

— Franz Kafka

Ilya Kabakov, Münster, 1997

My love! You lie in the grass, your head thrown back; around you: Not a soul. You hear only the wind, and look up into the open sky — into the blue above, where the clouds float by — perhaps that is the loveliest thing that you have ever in your life done, and seen.

Looking up, reading the words ...

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

— Frank O'Hara

Love without agenda.

Letter from Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer

When the wind stops, the silence comes back.

— Raúl Zurita

This is what I miss […] not something that's gone, but something that will never happen.

— Margaret Atwood

KUNSTMUSEUM

Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.

— La Jetée; dir. by Chris Marker in 1962

Ryoji Ikeda | test pattern [100m version] | 2013

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

— Joseph Beuys

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Yves Klein | Monochromes | 1960

If we, today, are unable to read the entire universe and it's meaning off our civic institutions as the Romans did — loss or gain — we still need to be at home in it; to interiorise it; refashion it in our own image — each for himself this time.

— Aldo van Eyck

[…] keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way. And there never was.

— Charles Bukowski

The only alternative to the spectacle is to show the alternative.

— Situationist International

Francesca Woodman

Rooms may owe their existence to an idea but, in the end, they consist of physical matter, of material that often obeys no idea at all and only wants to exercise its own rights.

— Peter Zumthor

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