The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
He was silent for a moment. Silence seemed to have fallen upon the world. “That is what I have felt since I knew you” he replied. “We are happy together”. He did not seem to be speaking, or she to be hearing. “Very happy”, she answered. They continued to walk for some time in sil
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Literature · Reflection
There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.” Hermann Hesse
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Art · Reflection
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre. GEORGE BRASSAI passers-by in the rain , 1935
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Art · Reflection
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American
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Art · Reflection
She who wants to be caught never escapes ~ Nunca se escapa la qe. se quiere dejar coger. Goya – Los Caprichos
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Art · Reflection
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Literature · Reflection
“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?” Nicolai Gogol
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Literature · Reflection
“She felt him invisibly master her spirit” The Fox (1923) “A woman cannot be herself, cannot be essentially a woman, until she submerges herself in the male” D.H. Lawrence (1885 -1930)
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Art · Reflection
29th September 1955: Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? …On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the
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Literature · Reflection
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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Art · Reflection
“I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.” Pierre Bonnard
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Art · Reflection
Alice et le lapin Blanc Le petit chaperon rouge MARIE NEIGE Marie Neige is an autodidact…a real artist as we say. Art runs through her veins and you can clearly see this in her work. Her collages are fantastic, a magic world has come alive. Have to admit that I am a huge fan of
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