The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
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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Art · Reflection
“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.” Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist and the first artist of African descent to become an international art star. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City, and in the 1980s
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Art · Reflection
“I don’t think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck” Francis Bacon
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Art · Reflection
Leonor Fini and Moutchi photograph by Veno Pilon, c. 1934
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Art · Reflection
Vertigo, Magic Staircase (1908) by Leon Spillieaert Belgian artist 1881-1946
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Art · Reflection
the recital of dreams You DO know that you are a dream don’t you? Do you realize how completely alone the Divine Being is? All that there is is only this Divine Being. Our Beloved, our Self! To hide from the Truth the Divine Beloved dreams that It is You! And Me and All of
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Art · Reflection
Rodrigo Banus is a young talented painter from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started to paint when he was fifteen years old. He has a large productivity and more and more people are getting to know his works. I do love his works because they are colorful and give me a happy feeling
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Art · Reflection
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t im
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Art · Reflection
“The dreamwork is not simply more careless, more irrational, more forgetful and more incomplete than waking thought: it is completely different from it qualitatively and for that reason not immediately comparable with it. It does not think, calculate or judge in any way at all: i
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