Lisbon

"Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody."

- Fernando Pessoa
 

 

 

Paris

"Such a huge Paris! It would take a lifetime to explore it again. This Paris, to which I alone had the key, hardly lends itself to a tour, even with the best of intentions; it is a Paris that has to be lived, that has to be experienced each day in a thousand different forms of torture, a Paris that grows inside you like a cancer, and grows and grows until you are eaten away by it."

- Henry Miller

Amsterdam

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

- Vincent van Gogh 

New York

"It is no easier, I’m convinced, to make a good painting than to find a diamond or a pearl; it requires effort, and you stake your life as a dealer or an artist on it. So once you have good stones, it’s important not to lack faith in yourself....There are no more good paintings than there are diamonds. "

― Vincent van Gogh