»Die Farbe ist die Taste, das Auge ist der Hammer. Die Seele ist das Klavier mit vielen Saiten. /
The color is the key, the eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with many strings.«
Wassily Kandinsky
»Über das Geistige in der Kunst«, published in »Der Blaue Reiter«
»A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.«
Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram
»Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.«
Susan Sontag
Graduation Speech, Vassar College 2003
»Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images — one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.«