Floris Neusüss, Water dissolution, 1977

In The Mood For Love (2000), dir. Wong Kar Wai

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

The Lady Without Camelias, 1953 (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) 

Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Ernst Haeckel

Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Man Ray

The Hands of Antonin Artaud, 1922.