I gave up married women

‘Cause I heard it was a sin

But now I’m back in Pittsburgh

I might take them up again

– Elvis Costello

To be young and full of poison in streets raining strychnine, moving through tilted shadows past all-night drug stores and locked launderettes.

– Steve Aylett

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy until they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is literature.

– Rudyard Kipling

At that moment he knew only one thing; that she was sweet and softly made, that she was full of charm and yielding of body. He enjoyed her in advance, he was heated up like an oven. The strength of his desire was in fact the virtue of his vice.

– Knut Hamsun

Pictures such as these represent mature mysticism and love blending in an indissoluble entity, often conveyed in a deep, dark blue, using lines moving in long, melancholy rhythms that reflect the rhythm of the shoreline.

The milieu in which Munch moved was mainly literary, dominated by Nietzsche’s philosophy and symbolism, preoccupied by erotic problems and death fantasies.

– Gerd Wolf

Whether the picture resembles nature does not matter, To explain a picture is impossible. It is just because one cannot explain it in any other way that it is painted.

I do not believe in an art which has not forced its way forward from man’s need to open his heart. All art, literature as well as music, must be created with one’s life blood.

– Edvard Munch

It is not just an object, it’s a method that you could use artistically to change reality.

– Duncan Laurie

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

– Bill Viola

We cling to lifeless matter because of its connections, its solid form. We love matter insofar as it is connected with the beloved Essence, insofar as these traces reach, or insofar as the material object resembles or reflects the Beloved.

The spirit always appears in strange, evanescent forms.

– Novalis

Marcus claimed that divine truth had revealed itself to him naked, "in feminine form, having descended upon him from invisible and ineffable space, for the world could not have borne the truth coming in masculine form." According to Irenaeus, Marcus said that she revealed herself through letters and numbers, each part of her body adorned with one of the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet.

– Elaine Pagels

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

Jesus took Thomas and withdrew, and told him three things. When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said, "If I tell you even one of the things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; and a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up.

– The Gospel of Thomas