Ralf Hütter, 75

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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you set up a life you don't need to escape from.

— Seth Godin

I know you're tired, but come, this is the way.

— Rumi

Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, Houston, USA, 1971
Cenatio Principalis, Domus Aurea, Rom, Italien, 64 - 104

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate those basic human emotions [...]. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point.

— Mark Rothko

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We create eternity from scraps of time.

— Anna Kamienska

What are you thinking? the girl asked. Nothing. You have to think something. I was just feeling.

— Ernest Hemingway

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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

— Yann Martel

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One thing you should know — music can and will change human consciousness.

— Edgar Froese

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Suspiria

There is no perfection, only life.

— Milan Kundera

I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly.

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Where are we really going? Home, always back home.

— Novalis

The main thing is, you must believe.

― Andrei Tarkovsky

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[…] my only cure for the loneliness I go through: More.

— Franz Wright

#autobahn

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The best portion of a good man's life — his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

— William Wordsworth

Musikgeschichte im Tatort; heute: Tatort Essen, Das Mädchen von gegenüber, 1977. Kommissar Heinz Haferkamp hält Miles Davis Album "Sketches of Spain" aus 1959/60 in der Hand; links hinter ihm an der Wand befindet sich ein Poster/Portraitfoto der Musikkapelle Kraftwerk.

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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Japan, 1960

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It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

— John Green

Dr. Eldon Tyrell is on point.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

— Gore Vidal

Ozu had a kind of loneliness about him. This loneliness showed in his films. No matter how cheerful he acted — and I don't mean he was putting it on, because he had a truly bright side, too. He enjoyed himself. He liked to do fun things. But at the same time, there was always this loneliness. That's why I believed in him. Artists without an air of loneliness are boring.

— Kon Hidemi

back in bed.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: Love is eternal.

— E. M. Forster

But memory of landscape is not always associated with pleasure. It can be associated sometimes with loss, with pain, with social fracture and a sense of belonging gone, although the memory remains, albeit poignantly.

— Ken Taylor

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Ja, hier Düsseldorf.

100

My heart is a lonely hunter.

We turn to silence when we are tired
of translating this existence.