Talkin' to me, dotard?

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Peter Berling

* 20.03.1934 - † 21.11.2017

dctp; Zum Tod von Peter Berling

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

— Heraclitus

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

— Simone Weil

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone — and finding that that's ok with them.

— Alain de Botton

Heinz Bennent

Derrick, Geheimnisse einer Nacht; inszeniert von Alfred Vohrer, 1983

Sie liebte ihn nicht mehr. So entging sie der Zerstörung. Wenn man liebt, ist man anfällig und der Zerstörung durch den anderen ausgesetzt.

— Gustav Vrings

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Perhaps strength doesn't reside in having never been broken, but in the courage to required to grow strong in the broken places.

— Kristen Jongen

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Landscape and nature are not there simply to be gazed at; no, they press hard upon and into our bodies and minds, complexly affect our moods, our sensibilities. They riddle us in two ways — both perplexing and perforating us.

— Robert MacFarlane

Every man's memory is his private literature.

— Aldous Huxley

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

— Herman Hesse

Winter Light; dir. by Ingmar Bergman in 1963

/// Many have an image of me, but few get the picture.

You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.

― Kōbō Abe

Techno-Stilkunde mit Alexander Kluge und Peter Wacha, 1995

[...] Computerworld; 1981. [...] Und das kann man jetzt hier im Ultraschall; also würde sofort akzeptiert; wird heute Nacht gespielt? Könnte passieren. [...] Und Sie sagen aber, Kraftwerk wäre sozusagen der immer noch intakte, immer noch aktuelle, aber Großeltern-Teil. Das ist schon drei Generationen weg von der Gegenwart. Aber trotzdem waren sie, wenn man diese Platten heute spielen kann, waren sie ihrer Zeit weit voraus. [...] Was würde so eine Gruppe 1995 jetzt machen in Chicago? Das ist gar nicht weit weg. [...]

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I like messy people; those who don't fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whose integrity is greater than any rule book and loyalty is thicker than blood.

— Jim Wern

What am I here for? To listen to my soul.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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All that I am left with is faith and hope — against all common sense. — And then what?

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

— Ram Dass

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

Genius is the ability to receive from the universe.

— Yì Jīng

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction; dir. by Sophie Huber, 2012

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let [others] stand in your way.

— Janet Fitch

You should get out of the habit of talking without saying anything.

— Albert Camus

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Give people time. Give people space. Don't beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What's meant for you will always be yours.

— Reyna Biddy

Stop trying to leave, and you will arrive.

— Lao Tzu

Leni Riefenstahl, 2002

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Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.

— John Cassavetes

One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.

— Franz Kafka

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I am at the center of feeling.

— Anne Sexton

Cy Twombly, 1966

I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.

— Cy Twombly

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

— Toni Morrison

You have walked through my universe.

— Anne Sexton

If you're scared of the wolves, stay out of the forest.

— Russian Proverb

There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk, in their eyes, in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.

— Charles Bukowski

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I love your silences, they are like mine.

— Anaïs Nin

My art doesn't have any message. It's the audience that gives the sense to my art.

— François Morellet

In this sense, love is work, it is something that is built. It is not something just given on the table. I think that this is the true radicality of love. The beauty of it actually lies in the hard and difficult work.

— Srecko Horvat

Luigi Honorat | Spherical Slices Rotation - Monolith II | 2017

Gregor Schneider wartet nicht, [...] er geht selber auf die Suche nach [...] Bauten und Räumen. Er baut und verbaut und dokumentiert sie, sich und uns hineinstürzend in Spiralen der Erinnerung, die sich in die Gegenwart bohren.

— Jörg Heiser

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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

— Don Delillo

[Wieso sagen Sie dann, dass Sie nicht gelitten haben?] Was bleibt mir anderes übrig? Soll ich eine Tragödie machen daraus? Das passiert woanders auch.

— Falco

Those who go away never come back.

— Susan Sontag

Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe.

— Susan Cain

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When you are young, you believe there'll be many people you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

— Richard Linklater

You who read me — are you certain you understand my language?

— Jorge Luis Borges

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Villa Tugendhat, Detail | 1929/30

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There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brâncuși

Kitarō; Reimei

The importance of touch is that it places you. It is the medium of the articulation of a relationship. Touch yields two different senses ― that of connection and that of separateness. It makes for a sense of oneness as well as for a sense of difference. One thing is sure: If we are not touched, we might begin to suspect that we are not here.

― Kathleen Woodword

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

― Björk