The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake William Blake (1757-1827) Hecate or the Three Fates Watercolor and pen and black ink 1795
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Art · Reflection
Leonor Fini by Henri Cartier Bresson,Paris-1933
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Reflections · Reflection
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet Palazzo da Mula in Venice 1908
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Art · Reflection
Nicole Dumont, Amsterdam – 1934 Eva Besnyö (Dutch-Hungarian Photographer)
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Literature · Reflection
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” Anais Nin On the photo Anais Nin with Henry Miller
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Reflections · Reflection
“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.” Henri Matisse
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Art · Reflection
Alexander Rodchenko Levels 1929 Vintage print on Silver gelatin paper Collection Museum Moscow House of Photography / Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow © A. Rodchenko – W. Stepanova Archive © Museum Moscow House of Photography
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Art · Reflection
Woman’s nudity is wiser than the philosopher’s teachings. Max Ernst Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, photo by Lee Miller.
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Art · Reflection
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. (Alberto Giacometti)
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Art · Reflection
“All good ideas arrive by chance.” Gala Éluard, 1924 Max Ernst
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