Art · Reflection
DON QUIXOTE ~ ON MADNESS
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
11 April 2016
Don Quixote by Honore Daumier
c. 1865 – 1870
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