Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”


Frida Kahlo

“The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.” 

Albert Camus

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

Albert Camus

by Remedios Varo

The Great Nanjing Massacre by Zi Jian Li

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” - Claude Monet

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825), The Death of Socrates

(via beethovenwasdeaf)

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” 

Michelangelo

“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Pedro Almodovar