"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"I had a presentiment then that there is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. Looking up at that dirty youth, I was choked by desire, thinking, "I want to change into him," thinking, "I want to be him. But masks fall, and with them, fall something that cannot be defined in lumps of clay or words."
Y. Mishima; Confessions of a Mask

"We accept the real so readily only because we sense that reality does not exist."
J. L. Borges

"Pop Art tok the inside and put it outside, took the outside and put it inside"
A. Warhol; POPism

"there are different ways for individual people to take over space - to command space.
very shy people don't even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up, whereas very outgoing people want to take as much space as they can. . .
i've always had a conflict because i'm shy and yet I like to take up a lot of personal space.
[...]
I wanted to command more space than I was commanding, but then I knew I was too shy to know what to do with the attention If I did manage to get it. that's why I love television.
that's why I feel that television is the media I'd most like to shine in."
A. Warhol; The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

"well, I would call myself - youthful-looking. I have a slightly faggy air, and I do little artistic movements..."
"well, I have very nice hands, very expressive... I keep them in repose or touching each other, or sometimes i wrap my arms around myself. I'm always very conscious of where my hands are..."
  A. Warhol

"Dear words written on the page
I wish i could say goodbye
I do not love you
And you know why"
M. Paramo; On Love and the (A)Romantic

"Not so long ago
The missionaries came
Believed they were destiny manifesting
By official statements
Recorded as accurate
On actions embedded in the land
The 'burden' to 'civilize'
Some say they acted out of love
Benev(i)olence
Yes, they did
outside of it, yes
Because their disrespect to life
Speaks louder"
M. Paramo; On Love and the (A)Romantic