'Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]” ― Jim Jarmusch

"With myself, always myself, never forgetting" - tracy emin

"Hic occultus occulto occisus est" - "Here a mysterious one was killed in a mysterious manner."

• There must be a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality… Tragic art, romantic art, etc., deals with the knowledge of death.
• Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.
• Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.
• Irony, This is a modern ingredient - the self-effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.
• Wit and play… for the human element.
• The ephemeral and chance… for the human element.
• Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

I measure these ingredients very carefully when I paint a picture. It is always the form that follows these elements and the picture results from the proportions of these elements.”

“But suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.” Joseph Campbell

“These violent delights have violent ends"

"we will laugh at gilded butterflies"