Ego

"If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living."

Arnold Bennett - Novelist

Edifices

"The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations."


George Santayana - Pragmatist

Textures and shapes

"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory."

Francis Bacon - Empiricist

Faces

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."

Sir Thomas Browne

Scapes

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees."


Marcel Proust - Modernist

Zeitgeist Metropolis

"Berlin ist arm, aber sexy."


Klaus Wowereit - Mayor

Black and White

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."


Louis Aragon - Writer