It's Proust Day!

His nocturnal, bedridden, disorderly work habits seem heroic. In his private life he mixed low-grade hedonism with deliberate psychological and moral experiment. What looks degraded to some of us may be edifying to others. This man of shrewd medical insight mercilessly punished his frail body and refused proper advice, even from his brother. He followed what...was his "only rule": "to yield to one's demon, to one's thought, to write on everything to the point of exhaustion." (Shattuck, The Work and its Author)

Dear Marcel, I know you don't like girls. But I love you, anyway. XOXO Sophie

C'est l'anniversaire de Chagall!

Il y a 120 ans aujourd'hui.

Mon cirque se joue dans le ciel. ~ Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

Quelle dommage qu'il n'y a pas de chat dans cette toile. Mais ça ne fait rien. Chagall est toujours le peintre des amants.

Des autres citations:

• My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
• We all know that a good person can be a bad artist. But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.
• Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love. (Wikipedia)