Menu
SUBSCRIBE

satisfaction for artlovers – cultural magazine

Author

Monique - page 35

Monique has 822 articles published.

ANAIS NIN ~ I AM SO TIRED…

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be able to stay on earth. Otherwise I feel myself going away, going away at a tremendous speed, on account of my lightness. I know that I am dead. As soon as I utter a phrase my sincerity dies, becomes a lie whose coldness chills me. Don’t say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.”

Anais Nin

Photo Carl van Vechten (1880-1964)

You might be interested in

CHILDE HASSAM ~ ON TRUE IMPRESSIONISM

in Passion Of Art by

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

Childe Hassam

Improvisation

You might be interested in

Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

NEIL GAIMAN ~ FRAGILE THINGS

in Poetry of Art/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”

Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

You might be interested in

JEAN GENET ~ ON REVOLUTION

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

– Jean Genet

You might be interested in

ALBERT CAMUS ~ ON LIFE

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Live to the point of tears.”

Albert Camus

You might be interested in

LOUISE ERDRICH ~ RISK YOUR HEART

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

Louise Erdrich – The Painted Drum

You might be interested in

GIACOMETTI ~ FEELING LIKE A CHILD

in Passion Of Art by

“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.”
Alberto Giacometti

You might be interested in

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ~ THE BEAUTY OF LITERATURE

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You might be interested in

Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

I ~ POEM BY TOM SHELDON

in Poetry of Art by

Know that space dilates with your own breath;
sing out, as a bird in the desert
from the shadowy rafters of its own high perch-
Our senses cannot fathom this darkness, so
learn the transformations through and through
staving off the inevitable is futile, non-efficacious and fruitless
Be the meaning of this strange encounter;
at their crossing, be the glowing center.
Immerse yourself at the precipice
With the words: I am.

Tom Sheldon

I © Copyright Tom Sheldon

You might be interested in

ANTONI TAPIES ~ ART AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/Passion Of Art by

“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”

ANTONI TAPIES

Barcelona, 1923 – 2012, painter, sculptor.
Tàpies eschewed traditional painting materials and championed the use of all sorts of other materials long before arte povera became a fashionable critical notion. He did in fact invent a new form of material expression.

You might be interested in

1 … 33 34 35 36 37 … 83
Go to Top