Edvard Weie, Faun og nymfe, circa 1940

Becka said that spelling was not reading. ‘Reading,’ she said, ‘was when you could hear the words as if they were a song.’

— Margaret Atwood
“The Testaments”

Félix Bracquemond, The Rainbow, 1893

Only someone who leaves the labyrinth can be happy, but only a happy person will be able to escape it.

— Michael Ende
“The Mirror in the Mirror – A Labyrinth”

Eugeen Van Mieghem, Cat

It is not widely known that the first character in sōzō (創造, meaning “creation”) is also used to mean “wound” (創) in Japanese.
(There is even a common wound treatment called bansōkō (絆創膏, meaning “adhesive bandage”), which uses the same character.)

Mikuláš Galanda, Woman with a Vase, 1938

Man cannot live without bread. But we should not live on bread alone. We should seek not only bread, but roses as well. Life must be adorned with roses.

— Koichiro Kokubun
The Ethics of Leisure and Boredom
(unofficial translation)

Josef Čapek, Mr. Myself, 1920

You want to give the world some sort of spark that is not there.
— Diana Vreeland,
from The Gospel According to André (2017)

Eric Ravilious, Two Women in a Garden, 1933

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This is how philosophers should salute each other: “Take your time.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

To change the way we live and the way we see the world, we need to rewrite the default settings of our thinking that we have acquired up to now.