Ami

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.”
― Michael Foley, The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays