The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell
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Art · Reflection
Ophelia (second version) 1863 Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) Ophelia in literature Russian novelist Fyodor Dostojevski , in the first chapter of his 1880 masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov, described a capricious young woman who committed suicide by throwing herself off a steep cliff
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Literature · Reflection
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready
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Art · Reflection
Creative people are stifled somehow by domesticity. They need to have late nights and bad mornings. Jack Vettriano The Letter by Jack Vettriano
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Art · Reflection
Dear Friends, wish you all a wonderful 2012 filled with art, love, friendship and Passion… ♥ Monique Photo Man Ray
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Art · Reflection
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. Kazimir Malevich Self portrait, 1933
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Poetry · Reflection
MONIQUE UNA FLOR SE DESPERTO EN TU SOÑAR VIAJANDO ENTRE ESTRELLAS Y SUSPIROS TU, FRENTE A UN ESPEJO PURA E INOCENTE EN UN CAMINO DE MARES CON TU SONRISA DE NIÑA CON TU PIEL DE MUJER LAGRIMAS Y COLORES SENTADA EN LA PLAYA, TERNURA DE TU ALMA UNIVERSO DE MIRADAS SENTIMIENTOS………………
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Literature · Reflection
Now we’re on my home ground, foreign territory. My throat constricts, as it learned to do when I discovered people could say words that would go into my ears meaning nothing. Margaret Atwood Born 1939, Canada Surfacing
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Art · Reflection
WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR
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Literature · Reflection
“Grief requires time. If a chip of stone radiates its self, its breath, so long, how stubborn might be the soul” Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces
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Literature · Reflection
“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” James Joyce (1882-1941) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Art · Reflection
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Western Motel
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