Fruits, 1885

Paul Cezanne

 

 

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

 

C. S. Lewis

 

 

Henri Matisse working on The Dance (1910)

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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

 

– Franz Kafka

 

 

Ballerina Yulia Stepanova – Photo by Sasha Gouliaev.

Piet Modrian, Chrysanthemum c.1908-1909

Molly Wagner

Photo by Kenny Johnson, Courtesy KCB.

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“I’m for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”

 

– Ken Kesey