Museums function, partly by design and partly in spite of themsevles, as monuments to the fragility of cultures, to the fall of sustaining institutions and noble houses, the collapse of rituals, the evacuation of myths, the destructive effects of warfare, neglect, and corrosive doubt.
— Stephen J. Greenblatt
Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
— Frida Kahlo
Louise Bourgeois | Maman | 2015
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
— Seneca the Younger
Have you ever seen a film called the Mirror? I was hypnotised! I've seen it 20 times, It's the closest I've got to a religion – to me he is God. And if I didn't dedicate the film to Tarkovsky, then everyone would say I was stealing from him. If you are stealing, then dedicate. I have stolen so much from Tarkovsky over the years; in order not to get arrested, I had to dedicate the film to him. I should have done it a long time ago.
— Lars von Trier
Romy
Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
— Sheila Heti
Isabelle Adjani | Sam Neill
Possession; dir. by Andrzej Żuławski in 1981
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The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the nothingness of what goes on.
— Slavoj Žižek
John Berger
This silence in myself, this silence which finally frees me from everything.
— Albert Camus
People are bored everywhere now.
But boredom comes from within.
If you've got an inner life,
you're never bored.
Wir liebten dieses Land, wir liebten diese Stadt und auf einmal woanders zu wohnen, selbst in Paris, selbst in New York, zwei der aufregendsten Städte der Welt, war nicht das gleiche, war nicht das selbe als die Heimat. Also, die Frage, was ist heute Ihre Heimat, kann ich nicht beantworten, umso mehr als ich überzeugt bin, dass die Heimat mit der Kindheit identisch ist. Es gibt keine neu erworbenen Heimaten.
— Georg Stefan Troller
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing.
— Mark Rothko
Taxi Driver; dir. by Martin Scorsese, 1976
You must remember,
if it's in your heart, then it's real.
Watch me go ballistic, suckers.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
— Ezra Pound
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It's the soul, that's erotic.
back in bed.
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
— Charles Bukowski
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Do you really believe in these fairy tales? Not in the good ones, but in the terrifying ones, yes.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nаzi or the convinced Cоmmunist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
— Hannah Arendt
The freer the soul, more abstract the art.
— Marc Chagall
