The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t im
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Art · Reflection
“The dreamwork is not simply more careless, more irrational, more forgetful and more incomplete than waking thought: it is completely different from it qualitatively and for that reason not immediately comparable with it. It does not think, calculate or judge in any way at all: i
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Reflections · Reflection
A Blue Page by Monique Lucy Weberink Unfortunately it is the dawn of a new age, books will be gone and being replaced by digital books. This is a blue page, a sad one… I will miss the paper in my hands and the smell of ink… www.passionofart.com www.passionforpaintings.com http://
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Art · Reflection
Walter Krane, A floral fantasy in an old English garden
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Art · Reflection
Imagination Mae Marcelo Elias Painter, Argentina (1966) Personally I love the style of this Argentinian painter very much. His works have a sense of mystery. The figures and colors do remind me of the Art Deco period! www.passionofart.com
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Art · Reflection
“A kiss may ruin a human life” Oscar Wilde Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic 1854-1900 Le Baiser, 1886 Auguste Toulmouche Auguste Toulmouche (September 21, 1829 – October 16, 1890) was a French Painter. He studied with Charles Gleyre and is known mainly for his portraits
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Art · Reflection
Zodiac, color litho by Alphons Maria Mucha, 1896 The Mucha Trust
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Poetry · Reflection
“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace” Anna Akhmatova 1889-1966 Russian Poet
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Poetry · Reflection
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ~George Sand, 1851 Painting is George Sand by Eugene Delacroix
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Art · Reflection
Pierrot goes away 1906 Gustav Adolf Mossa
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Art · Reflection
Here is the painting Salome (1906) by Franz von Stuck.
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Art · Reflection
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.” Man Ray Photo Sleeping Woman 1929 by Man Ray
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