The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
Franz van stuck (February 24, 1863 – August 30, 1928) was a German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. This painting is part of a tryptich Air, water and Fire. This part is called Water and Fire, 1913.
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Art · Reflection
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ” Plato
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Art · Reflection
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” Benjamin Britten
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“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness” Carl Gustav Jung
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus, Greek Philosopher (341-270 AD)
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Art · Reflection
“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough. Billie Holiday
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“We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.” Francis Bacon
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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.” Picasso Picasso with his children Paloma and Claude, 1953
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Art · Reflection
“It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.” Jackson Pollock Photo Jackson Pollock, Long Island 1949 by Arnold Newman
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Art · Reflection
The Depths of the Sea (1887) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Two weighless figures are buoyed up by the water surrounding them in this unusual underwaterview. Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Burne-Jones were fascinated with drowning; this preoccupution, part of a general preference for
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