This morning, with her, having coffee.

— Johnny Cash; when asked for his description of paradise

George Brecht | Yesterday will be better | 1963

I may have all the answers to my questions in myself but I need some catalyst to get them into my consciousness.

— Sylvia Plath

Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt

Gregor Schneider verwandelt Häuser in Skulpturen. Jetzt kaufte er das Geburtshaus von Hitlers Propagandaminister. Er hat es entkernt – den Schutt stellt er in Warschau aus. Eine Begehung in Rheydt.

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Ich bewege mich außerhalb der Kunstwelt, weil ich meine Arbeit nicht nur aus der Sicht der Kunst betrachte.

— Gregor Schneider

I have always been attracted to those sorts of people who make up their own logic. To those who think outside of the system, to those who invent as they go along. These kinds of people are the biggest dreamers of all and so I suppose that is the reason why they are always the ones who end up getting hurt.

— Harmony Korine

We have in our lives only a few moments. A moment of joy or wonder with another. Some might say beauty or transcendence. Some might say all those things. Then you reach an age […] and you realise that moment, or, if you are very lucky, a handful of those moments, was your life. That those moments are all, and that they are everything. And yet we persist in thinking that such moments will only have worth if we can make them go on forever. We should live for moments, yet we are so fraught in pursuing everything else, with the future, with the anchors that pull us down, so busy that we sometimes don't even see the moments for what they are.

— Richard Flanagan

There is no line where art stops and life begins.

― Charles Eames

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

— Robert Brault

Richard Serra | Circuit [Detail] | 1972/1989/2014

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

— Tadao Ando

Isabelle Adjani | Sam Neill

Possession; dir. by Andrzej Żuławski in 1981

Featuring what is arguably the bravest female performance ever put on film — namely, Isabelle Adjani's Cannes-winning turn of shamanistic intensity — the film dares its viewer to enter a trance-like state, in which genres blur and mate to yield a new level of cinematic expression. [...] There's no mistaking the fact that deep inside, Żuławski's cinema is all about searching for grace.

— Michal Oleszczyk

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The wise man will love; all others will desire.

— Lucius Afranius

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Istvan Kantor | SUPREME GIFT — for Jeff Koons | 2014

You are a heroic sacrificial celebrity and successful double-agent of today's hyper-hollywoodian art-mafioso establishment that uses corporate power and greed to financially abuse the arts and exploit artists all around the world. SUPREME GIFT confirms the rising power and authority of corporate art-criminals and sanctions the fact that the supreme measure of art today is money.

— Monty Cantsin

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

— Nostalghia; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1983

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October 19: The inner world can only be experienced, not described.

— Franz Kafka

Only one journey is possible: The journey within. We don't learn a whole lot from dashing about on the surface of the Earth. Neither do I believe that one travels so as to eventually return. Man can never reach back to the point of origin, because he has changed in the process. And of course we cannot escape from ourselves; what we are we carry with us. We carry with us the dwelling place of our soul, like the turtle carries its shell. A journey through all the countries of the world would be a mere symbolic journey. Whatever place one arrives at, it is still one's own soul that one is searching for.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

We strive for something so intensely, and in looking back, we see in our wake the people we could have loved — lost.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Ivan's Childhood, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1962

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The hardest thing in the world is simplicity.

— James Baldwin

The longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

— Joseph Brodsky

The Beauty of Boundaries; Snøhetta

Memory is a poet, not a historian.

— Paul Géraldy

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

— Robert Brault

Sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

— Lisa Unger

The moment was all; the moment was enough.

— Virginia Woolf

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

— Franz Kafka

Kitty Kraus | Untitled | 2006

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

— Anne Spollen

What I needed seemed to be absent everywhere.

— Charles Bukowski