People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
How I wish I didn’t know anything about myself and this world!
Emil Cioran
Undated
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge.
J.G.Ballard
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Emil Cioran
2021
“The real women are those whose presence makes you forget about problems, ideas, universal anxieties and metaphysical torment.”
Emil Cioran
2020
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2020
“Civilisation is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”
Arnold J. Toynbee
2019
“Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.”
Baruch Spinoza
2020
“One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2015