The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
“I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don’t deceive me with other women any more” Camille Claudel , French sculptor 1864 – 1943 She was the lover and muse of Auguste Rodin.
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Art · Reflection
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Miro
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Art · Reflection
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” Anais Nin
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Art · Reflection
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” anonymus “
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Art · Reflection
Title unknown Painter is Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images. I post this painting simple because I love it and because not so many people know the works of Victor Brauner.
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Art · Essay
Anna May Wong, photo taken by Edward Steichen Anna May Wong, 1931 by Edward Steichen Edward Steichen, Self Portrait Edward J. Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured
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Art · Reflection
“My maturity has not fulfilled the hopes and ambitions of my youth.” John Everett Millais
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Art · Essay
DREAMLAND By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule- From a wild clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE- out of TIME. Bottomless vale
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Art · Reflection
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It’s not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away a
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Art · Reflection
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” Franz Liszt
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Art · Reflection
“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.” Marc Chagall
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