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Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

— Lao Tzu

Bas Jan Ader | Thoughts unsaid, then forgotten | 1973

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

— Thomas Moore

Horst Tappert | Wolf Roth

Derrick, Ein Mord, zweiter Teil; inszeniert von Alfred Weidenmann, 1995

Sie haben sich da eine Welt zurechtgelegt, die zu Ihnen passt. Aber die Welt ist nicht immer so wie wir sie sehen. Und wir selbst, wir sind auch nicht immer so wie wir uns sehen. Na ja, ich nehme an, Sie werden nicht darüber nachdenken. [Da haben Sie Recht. — Rudolf Kollau]

— Stephan Derrick

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To live this life is more an indirect remembering than a direct living.

― Clarice Lispector

I have a tendency to become infatuated with people who are distant and difficult to understand, who share themselves sparingly, and rarely with their whole hearts. I adore the mysteries and enigmas of people. The harder to solve, the better.

— Beau Taplin

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She had all this inside her but she kept it quiet.

― Sidney Beckett

Before I organise myself, I must disorganize myself internally.

― Clarice Lispector

She did not want, then or ever, to entertain; she wanted to move people, to establish with them some communion of emotion.

― Joan Didion

Andrea Branzi; Trees

Silence usually taught him more than the company of others.

— Frédéric Gros

To be lost is only a failure of memory.

― Margaret Atwood

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

— Albert Camus

International El Chapo Style

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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

— Stephen Covey

[Bangs; as always.]

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

― Neil Gaiman

Als wir vor vielen vielen Jahren zum ersten Mal in Moskau waren, da haben wir Nelken gespielt. Und da war zum Beispiel, da war damals in der Sowjetunion, ich weiß jetzt nicht mehr wo [...] ein ganz schreckliches Erdbeben. [...] Und jedenfalls waren da auch Besucher aus diesem Land [...] in dieser Vorstellung. Und die haben die Vorstellung natürlich total anders gesehen. Die haben dann gedacht, das Stück Nelken wär gemacht [...] wegen dem Erdbeben. Die haben diese Nelkenfläche gesehen wie ein großes Grab. Und dann, als dann die beiden da kommen und mit ihren Kindereimerchen, sich so Erde auf den Kopf tun, das war für sie klar, [...] sie haben das alles [...] total anders gesehen. Ich denke, weil die Bilder so offen sind. Man hat viele Möglichkeiten ganz verschiedene Dinge darin zu sehen. Und so kann das also mit Stücken gehen, die haben überhaupt nichts damit zu tun. [...] Das finde ich sehr schön.

— Pina Bausch

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

— Simone Weil

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Wohnräume sind keine neutralen Behälter, nicht bloße Kulisse des Lebens. Sie berichten vielsagend vom Selbst- und Weltverständnis ihrer Bewohner. Denn der Mensch schreibt sich dauerhaft in Räume ein und diese wirken zugleich auf ihn zurück. Er lädt Räume mit Bedeutung auf und macht sie damit, einer Visitenkarte gleich, lesbar. [...] Die Werke der Ausstellung setzen den Innenraum als eine Art indirektes Porträt ins Bild. Sie befragen das Interieur als Spiegelbild der Seele und zeigen, wie sehr Wohnungseinrichtungen Aufschluss über die Persönlichkeit der dort Wohnenden geben.

Aufschlussreiche Räume - Interieur als Porträt;
Museum Morsbroich, 31.01. - 24.04.2016

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Anselm Kiefer | Étroits sont les Vaisseaux; Detail | 2002

25 meter long sculpture made of cast concrete, exposed rebar, and lead.

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I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

― Isabel Allende

The timing in which people enter your life is very important ...

Go on, get deeper, go deeper, and it will become good. Find your level. This is not yet you.

— Anaïs Nin

From DETAJ, with love ...

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.

— Carl Jung

Une femme mariée, dir. by Jean-Luc Godard in 1964

In diesen "Fragmenten eines 1964 gedrehten Films" Godards geht es darum, die Welt im Sinn der Semiotik als Sprache bewußt zu machen, als ein Zeichensystem, das es zu entschlüsseln gilt. Bilder, Wörter, Musik und Geräusche werden scheinbar willkürlich kombiniert, verweisen aber auf die im Alltag kaum bewußt wahrnehmbaren Manipulationen, die menschliches Verhalten steuern.

— FILMDIENST

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You happen to have direct communication with your unconscious, that is rare, but most people do not.

— Anaïs Nin

Stay classy; always.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anselm Kiefer | Shevirath Ha Kelim | 2009

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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

— Anaïs Nin

When attitudes become form ...

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

— Miranda July

Gregor Schneider | Müllsack in Wichsecke | 2000

Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

— Chuck Klosterman

Gregor Schneider

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Richard Serra | East-West / West-East | 2014

What a disaster if a woman loved you because you deserved it.

— Giorgio Agamben

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

— Haruki Murakami

Le Tour de France á Dazzledorf ...

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

— Isabelle Adjani

The high luxury of not having to explain.

— Virginia Woolf

Marc Wilson | Upper Normandy | 2012

The things that we love tell us what we are.

― Thomas Aquinas

We are simply a part of the machinery of the moment.

— Charles Bukowski

Krister Henriksson; Wallander, Sorgfågeln, 2013

We're more likely to trust those who genuinely
express their weaknesses or vulnerabilities ...

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Reinhard Krause | Am Ruhrschnellweg | 1984 / 1988

Ich habe damals in den achtziger Jahren das Ruhrgebiet als faszinierenden Kulturraum erlebt, den Strukturwandel und die vielen damit verbundenen Ungereimtheiten empfand ich eher als Chance denn als Hemmnis. Meine Fotos sind sehr subjektiv, aber sie sind keine Abrechnung, sondern eher eine Liebeserklärung.

— Reinhard Krause

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And if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Persona, dir. by Ingmar Bergman in 1966

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Nähme man den Leuten ihren schlechten Geschmack weg, würde man viele ihrer Identität berauben.

— Goedart Palm

You keep me safe and I'll keep you wild ...

May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

— John O'Donohue

I have tried to put some poetic imagination into it, though not in order to create poetic architecture but to make a certain kind of architecture that could emanate a sense of formal poetry.

— Carlo Scarpa

Some memories refuse to be locked in time or place, they are always present.

— Nathan Filer

Tatyana Samoylova

Letter Never Sent, dir. by Mikhail Kalatozov in 1959

[...] Regardless, Letter Never Sent is a film that stalwart cineastes—particularly those who love the perpetual surprises of vertiginous camera work—will likely always feel immensely drawn to. It is a master class of sorts, one that lays bare the building blocks of a dazzling style that remains unsurpassed in the history of cinematic art.

— Dina Iordanova

Really, my dear. Nothing's easy.

— Jack Kerouac

Ricci Albenda | Panning Annex | 2007

Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside and it will be easy enough to fail but don't, don't, don't. Just watch them. Listen to them. Do you want to be like that? A faceless, mindless, heartless being? Do you want to experience death before death? Nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. It's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Think about it. Think about saving yourself.

— Charles Bukowski

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

— William Morris

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

— Shel Silverstein

Gregor Schneider

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Es ist keine Kunst, ein Mädchen zu verführen, aber ein Glück, eines zu finden, das es wert ist, verführt zu werden.

— Søren Kierkegaard

There's beauty to be found in Particle Physics ...

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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

— Oscar Wilde

People talk loud and long, in order to say as little as possible. The really true and interesting things are the intrigues in the background, about which not a word is mentioned.

— Franz Kafka

I would like my work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions.

— Eva Hesse

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Art is made by the alone for the alone.

— Luis Barragàn