Moniqs

The journal

Stories to linger over.

A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.

AllArtLiteraturePoetryMusicReflections
CAMILLE CLAUDEL, A FEMALE GENIUS ~ BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK

Reflections · Essay

CAMILLE CLAUDEL, A FEMALE GENIUS ~ BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK

A Female Genius… “You’re wrong to think it’s about you. You’re a sculptor, Rodin, not a sculpture. You ought to know. I am that old woman with nothing on her bones. And the aging young girl… that’s also me. And the man is me too. Not you. I gave him my toughness. He gave me

Read story
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ THE FOOLISHNESS OF BEING HAPPY

Reflections · Reflection

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ THE FOOLISHNESS OF BEING HAPPY

Alfred Stieglitz 1918, portrait de Georgia O’Keeffe “I think it’s so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary–you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is

Read story
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ THE FOOLISHNESS OF BEING HAPPY

Reflections · Reflection

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ THE FOOLISHNESS OF BEING HAPPY

Alfred Stieglitz 1918, portrait de Georgia O’Keeffe “I think it’s so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary–you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is

Read story
PABLO PICASSO ~ WHAT IS AN ARTIST?

Reflections · Reflection

PABLO PICASSO ~ WHAT IS AN ARTIST?

“What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” — Pab

Read story
SALVADOR DALI ~ ON CONFUSION

Reflections · Reflection

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON CONFUSION

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life” ― Salvador Dalí Photo Dali and his wife Gala

Read story
FERDINAND HODLER ~ ON ART

Reflections · Reflection

FERDINAND HODLER ~ ON ART

“The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things…the idea of unity.” Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) The Dream, 1897

Read story
EMIL NOLDE ~ AN ILLUMINATING LIFE

Reflections · Reflection

EMIL NOLDE ~ AN ILLUMINATING LIFE

“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties” Emil Nolde (1867-1956) Mask Still Life III 1911 Irises and Poppies

Read story
SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM

Reflections · Reflection

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” ― Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí, painting The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946

Read story
DOROTHEA TANNING ~ ON ART

Reflections · Reflection

DOROTHEA TANNING ~ ON ART

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity” Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) Some Roses and their Phantoms, 1952 Dorothea Tanning

Read story