Ina de Bree

‘One should never be cured of one’s passions.’ Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, 1964

‘I don’t do everything boys ask.’ Le genou de Claire, Éric Rohmer, 1970

‘I definitely don’t agree with your morals.’ La collectionneuse, 1967, Éric Rohmer

‘We are hungry for tenderness in a world where everything abounds…’ Alda Merini © Anna Ådén

‘As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I don’t know (..) I sing for you now my songs of love.’ Alda Merini, Love Songs 2009 ©️ Victor Schrager

‘There’s a place in the world where the heart beats (…) where time stops and you have no age. That place is your arms where the heart doesn’t grow old, while the mind never stops dreaming.’ Alda Merini, In Your Arms (poem) Garry Winogrand

‘A poem may hold the thunder’s echo, like a shell touched by Orpheus as he fled. Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.’ Adam Zagajewski, Shell, Mysticism for Beginners, 1999

‘Everything changes, nothing perishes.’ Ovid - Metamorphoses, 8 CE Fredrik Axling

‘There is truth and then again there is truth. (…) The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.’ Philip Roth - The Human Stain, 2000 R.B. Kitaj, 1986

‘Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.’ Erich Fromm Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, 1947 Louise Dahl- Wolfe: Looking at Matisse ( Dance I), 1940

‘The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; …’ Philip Larkin - The Trees, 1974 Gustav Klimt - Der Park, 1910

‘The happiness of your life depends on upon the quality of your thoughts.’ Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (Book 5), 170 - 180 AD Caspar Jade

‘He who has thought, most deeply loves what is most alive.’ Friedrich Hölderlin - Sokrates und Alcibiades, 1798 Maria Callas

‘There are desires te return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never isthmused.’ César Vallejo

‘The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.’ Marthe Troly- Curtin Kathryn Oliver

‘On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree …’ W.S. Merwin - Place: from The Rain and Trees, 1998 Vincent van Gogh - Almond Tree in Blossen, Arles , 1888

‘ Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our life.’ Albert Einstein, Letter to Adrianna Enriques, October 1921

‘A post-truth democracy (…) would no longer be a democracy.’ Jurgen Halbermas Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion, 2005 Nell Dorr

‘Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world.’ Jack Kerouac Letter to Edith Parker - Kerouac: January 28, 1957 Michael Kenna - Poplar Trees, Italy, Fucino Abruzzo, 2016

‘I am drunk with the beauty of the world, and my soul is a song that rises to the eternal.’ Gabriel D’Annunzio - Laudi, book 3 Alcyone, 1903 Saul Leiter

‘For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.’ Anita Brookner, Look at Me, 1981 Saul Leiter, Deborah, 1940s