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

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