Ich habe keine Probleme Orte zu verstehen. Ich liebe die gespeicherte Geschichte an und in den Orten. [...] Ich liebe gut gestimmte Räume, ich bin ein absoluter Liebhaber von Räumen.

— Peter Zumthor; im Gespräch mit Juri Steiner

Through living in it, the landscape becomes a part of us, just as we are part of it.

— Tim Ingold

The bicycle is not only noble in relation to body rhythms: It is also generous to thought. For anyone with a tendency to digress, the sinuous company of the handlebars is perfect. When ideas are gliding smoothly along in straight lines, the two wheels of the bicycle carry both rider and ideas in tandem. And when some stray thought afflicts the cyclist and blocks the natural flow of his mind, he only has to find a steep slope and let gravity and the wind work their redemptive alchemy.

— Valeria Luiselli

Classy; as always.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

— Michael Haneke

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

— Agnes Martin

From Sinaloa; with love.

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I am a law of my own, I am not a law for all. This — is now my way; where is yours?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You need to learn to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life, work on the mind.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Let feelings bring about events, not the contrary.

— Robert Bresson

Most of the time, the universe speaks to us very quietly. In pockets of silence, in coincidences, in nature, in forgotten memories, in the shape of clouds, in moments of solitude, in small tugs at our hearts.

— Yumi Sakugawa

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Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

— Slavoj Žižek

What makes me depressed? Seeing stupid people happy.

— Slavoj Žižek

Gregor Schneider, N. Schmidt, 2017;
LWL Museum, Münster, 10.06.2017 - 01.10.2017

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.

— Charles Eames

If it happens in Europe, they are terrorists. Or "evil losers". If it happens in Syria, they are "moderate rebels", or "freedom fighters".

― Pepe Escobar

Bill Viola | Tristans Himmelfahrt | 2005/2017

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I've seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.

— Albert Camus

People are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You can't control perception. It's a losing game so I don't play. I let them lose; lose themselves in their own fantasies of what they want me to be.

― Sergei Polunin

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Sometimes you can achieve grace through somebody else's belief in you.

— Jeff Buckley

Classy; as always.

Earth is what I feel for you.

— Andrzej Żuławski

I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.

— Tao

Man täusche sich nicht, das ganz Einfache ist zugleich auch ganz komplex. Deshalb ermüdet man auch nicht. Man ist hellwach und konzentriert. Schon der Anfang verdeutlicht das Programm: Der Chor singt lediglich Zahlen, One, two, three, four ..., in winzigen Variationen, während zwei Schauspieler- innen in ebenso geringfügigen Variationen Texte sprechen, die aus Floskeln und Redensarten bestehen, aber keinen Sinn preisgeben. Es wird so schnell nicht aufhören, aber man ahnt: Es wird aufhören, bevor man es leid ist. In diesem Kalkül liegt die Magie. Die Verführung.

— Martin Krumbholz

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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

— Albert Camus

The day with its cares and perplexities is ended and the night is now upon us. The night should be a time of peace and tranquility, a time to relax and be calm. We have need of a soothing story to banish the disturbing thoughts of the day, to set at rest our troubled minds, and put at ease our ruffled spirits. And what sort of story shall we hear? Ah, it will be a familiar story, a story that is so very, very old, and yet it is so new. It is the old, old story of love ...

— Philip Glass; Einstein on the Beach

It's not possible to live in this age, if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

— Rem Koolhaas

Classy; as always.

I think some people are just inexplicably bonded. Drawn by forces beyond their own comprehension, they have no choice but to gravitate toward one another. Destined by fate to keep crossing paths until they finally get it right.

— L. B. Simmons

After a story there are some moments of silence. Then words begin again.

— Anne Carson

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A word and everything is saved. A word and all is lost.

— André Breton

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road–there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The whole landscape a manuscript. We had lost the skill to read.

— John Montague

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dazzledorf; revisited.

Gold runs in our blood.

— Virginia Woolf

Margarita Terekhova

Mirror; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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So I wrote to her.
Letters I never sent.
Letters I flushed away.

幽玄

The universe will keep teaching you the
same lesson, until you finally learn.

Fargo, Staffel 3; inszeniert von Noah Hawley, 2017

Eine absolute Offenbarung: Fargo, Staffel 3. Da dachte ich, dass mit der ersten Staffel und einem unglaublichen Billy Bob Thornton als unfassbarer Lorne Malvo keine Steigerungen mehr möglich wären, aber die dritte Staffel belehrt mich tatsächlich eines besseren. Abseits der fantastischen Exposition und Geschichte der Staffel, wird hier eine nahezu perfekte und hochästhetische Kameraarbeit in Szene gesetzt, wie ich sie bisher vergleichbar nur von Alexander Knyazhinsky in Tarkovskys' Meisterwerk Stalker oder von Thomas Mauch in Werner Herzogs' Fitzcarraldo kannte. Damit nicht genug, ist auch die Musik von Radik Tulush in einer Szene der ersten Folge The Law of Vacant Places eine Reminiszenz an Goblins' Schaffen in Dario Argentos' Meisterwerk Suspiria. Anschauen und genießen; echt.

There are metaphors, more real than the people who walk in the street.

— Fernando Pessoa

Charles Bukowski und Linda Lee Beighle; auf der Rennbahn.

All men see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

— E. M. Cioran

Who other than the controversial German artist and sculptor, Gregor Schneider, a pre-eminent exponent of the new conceptual art and winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2001, could make Omonoia Square disappear? Shifting its centre, the very navel of Athens, art and metaphysics meet.

— Onassis Cultural Centre

Gregor Schneider, Invisible City; FFF 2017, Athens

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To be so slow that you can feel the vibrations of the other, is far from easy.

— David Schnarch

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un on volcano Mt. Paektu, 2015.

It takes nothing to join the crowd,
but everything to stand alone.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.

— Leonard Cohen