A Field Guide to Getting Lost

"Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't – and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown."

Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Yves Klein

"The composition, even the texture of my paintings, is the texture of the pictorial matter; it must be highly effaced, intensely worked, strong, and serious, in order to permit the display in all its splendor – color."

Yves Klein
Overcoming the Problematics of Art

A Case of Identity

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would dare not to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"A Case of Identity"

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

"It is the conviction that nothing mysterious can ever happen in our everyday life that has destroyed the joy of abstract thought."

Wassily Kandinsky
Concerning the Spiritual in Art

The Rum Diary

"I had a flash of something I hadn't felt since my first months in Europe–a mixture of ignorance and a loose, 'what the hell' kind of confidence that comes on a man when the wind picks up and he begins to move in a hard straight line toward an unknown horizon."

Hunter S. Thompson
The Rum Diary

Yves Klein

If I only succeeded ... for just one day!
To love
each of the moments
of my life
with enthusiasm.
I truly wish to believe
that at the end of the day
I would be no more
than a small pile
of ashes.

Yves Klein