Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? Oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. All things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marina Abramović | The Artist Is Present | 2010

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Was haben Sie da gedacht, wenn Sie das gelesen haben, dass da jemand sagt, das ist ein Campendonk wie er leibt und lebt und noch einer der Schönsten?

Ja, da hat er doch recht.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

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E - RZ 1

He held her hand. Happiness is this, he thought.

— Virginia Woolf

He [Andrei Tarkovsky] had a rare, enormous gift on concentration. That he had done so much, and, most importantly, how he done it, was due to the ability of his to concentrate, which is very rare. In art, in general, concentration is a very serious thing. A true concentration. When your comprehension is very deep. A very few people can do it, only great artists.

— Eduard Artemyev

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There's beauty to be found in a Proton-Antiproton Annihilation ...

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She is an idol, a servant, the source of life, a power of darkness; she is the elemental silence of truth, she is artifice, gossip, and falsehood; she is healing presence and sorceress; she is man's prey, his downfall, she is everything that he is not and that he longs for, his negation and his raison d'être.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Sátántangó, directed by Béla Tarr in 1994

Tilda Swinton | Udo Kier

Egomania, directed by Christoph Schlingensief in 1986

I am the painter of space. I am not an abstract painter but, on the contrary, a figurative artist, and a realist. Let us be honest, to paint space, I must be in position. I must be in space.

— Yves Klein

I believe in empty spaces, they're the most wonderful thing.

— Anselm Kiefer

Mirror, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.

— Robert Walser

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Le Corbusier does not belong so much to the history of architecture as to that of totalitarianism, to the spiritual, intellectual, and moral deformity of the interbellum years in Europe. Clearly, he was not alone; he was both a creator and a symptom of the Zeitgeist. […] It is a sign of the abiding strength of the totalitarian temptation, as the French philosopher Jean-François Revel called it, that Le Corbusier is still revered in architectural schools and elsewhere, rather than universally reviled.

— Theodore Dalrymple

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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jupiter / Io

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art — we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

— Anaïs Nin

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It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

— Isaac Asimov

Florian Slotawa | Atelier (Raum V, 1) | 2009

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My words mean nothing to you. People like you can't be reached.

— Persona, dir. by Ingmar Bergman in 1966

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

— Simone de Beauvoir