Hieronymus Bosch Quotes

“But to a ten year old it didn’t matter. Whatever the measurements were, they were the dimensions of fear.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“I was writing about a man who every day ventured into the human abyss, whose job took him across landscapes of chaos and its consequences. I was writing the story of a man who confronted horrific evil among men and who all the while wrestled with his own dark currents. From that day on he became Detective Hieronymus Bosch.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“The mark of a true artist, I believe, is to create something that can live on in another’s imagination. Hieronymus Bosch certainly accomplished this.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“Man is depicted again and again as embracing evil, as being the instigator of his own downfall.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“The paintings, full of dark, hellish landscapes of torture and debauchery, are about chaos and its consequences.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“It was in Frank Morgan’s alto sax that I found the soundtrack of my detective. In his sad but uplifting ballad “Lullaby,” written by pianist George Cables, I discovered my detective’s anthem. For many years I played that song at the start of each writing day.”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“I gravitated toward music that invoked loneliness in me. Jazz. More to the point, the sound of the jazz saxophone. I started with the essentials—John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile

“Highland Avenue in suburban Philadelphia”
― Michael Connelly, Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile