#art contemporary
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us – there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan
Artwork by Joseph Minek
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“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Artwork by Roos van de Kieft
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“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Artwork by Benjamin Shine
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
― Mark Twain
Artwork by Noémie Goudal
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If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
— C. JoyBell C.
Artwork by Alice Solantania Saga
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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron
Artwork by Sonia Szóstak
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“We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”
― Alice Notley
Artwork by Henrique Oliveira
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“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
― Bertolt Brecht
Artwork by Jacob a.ka. Mailbomb
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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
― C.G. Jung
Artwork by Joanna Chudy
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“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Artwork by Ali Beletic
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“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
Artwork by Todd Mclellan
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Artwork by Katie Paterson
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“Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Artwork by Alexandre Chamelat
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
― Alan W. Watts
Artwork by Heike Weber
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
— Elie Wiesel
Artwork by Zezn
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“What we want and what we get is rarely ever the same thing.”
― Paul Auster, Invisible
Artwork by Boo Saville
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“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
— Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Artwork by David Smith
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“I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness
Artwork by Javier Martin
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“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
— George Orwell, 1984
Artwork by Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold
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“When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney
Artwork by Bianka Schumann
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“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it, just as we have learned to live with storms.”
― Paulo Coelho
Artwork by Kurt Perschke
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“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot
Artwork by Victoria Siemer
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“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Artwork by Lucia Fainzilber
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The Deluge | Bill Viola | 2002
