The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“the only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room where we meet the first light of the dewy day, the first breath of the morning air, the first glance of gentle eyes; to which we descend in the very spring and elasticity of
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Reflections · Reflection
“I don’t dig beneath the surface for things that don’t appear before my own eyes.” John Singer Sargent At Torre Galli: Ladies in a Garden John Singer Sargent – 1910 Pomegranates John Singer Sargent – 1908
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Reflections · Reflection
“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.” ― Vincent van Gogh The Old Tower in the Fields, 1884
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Literature · Reflection
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more wide
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Reflections · Reflection
Summer, 1878, James Tissot. “It is imagination that inflames the passions by painting in a fascinating or terrible fashion an object which impresses us.” James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) Study for (also known as Woman in an Interior) James Tissot – circa 1883-1885 James Jacques J
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Blue Trees, 1888 “Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery – idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful – the beauty that is personal – the only beauty that is human.” ― Paul Gauguin, Intimate Journals
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Art · Reflection
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses Paul Cézanne – circa 1890 www.passionforpaintings.com
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“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” ― Claude Monet Water Lilies (detail), 1914, 1917
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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.” ― Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet (French, Realism, 1819–1877) Still Life with Apples and Pears, 1871
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Art · Reflection
“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.” Edward Steichen “The Flatiron” 1905 by Edward Steichen 1897-1973
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Reflections · Reflection
“Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.” ― Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes El Quitasol, 1777
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Stuffed Shirts (Les Plastrons) Pablo Picasso – 1900 We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” ― Pablo
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