“Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness.”
Franz Kafka
“Tears fall in my heart as rain falls on the town.”
Paul Verlaine
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
Marcel Proust
“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
Charles Baudelaire, Les Paradis Artificiels
“By the time we learn to live, it's already too late.”
Louis Aragon
“To create is always to speak of childhood.”
Jean Genet
“One must be absolutely modern.”
Arthur Rimbaud
“More human than a human is our motto”
Philip K. Dick
“Beauty always has an element of strangeness. I do not mean a deliberate cold form of strangeness, for in that case it would be a monstrous thing that had jumped the rails of life. But I do mean that it always contains a certain degree of strangeness, of simple, unintended, unconscious strangeness.”
Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques
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