In A Galaxy Not So Far Away...

Venus


'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.'

(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

The Door To Paradise Is Not Always Open

Lorenzo Ghiberti - Adam and Eve, Gates of Paradise, 1425-52


'An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.'

Victor Hugo

A View Of The Biggest Room Of All

Claude Monet - Le Bassin d'Argenteuil, 1872


'A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.'

Marcel Proust

Part of Us Will Always Remain Unspoken

Henry Fuseli - The Silence, 1799-1801


'Silence is the wit of fools.'

Anatole France

Strange Days Are These

Paul Gustave Doré - Canto XII, Purgatory, The Divine Comedy (Dante), 1857


'Hell is empty and all the devils are here.'

William Shakespeare

Eternity Weeps When You Cut It In Half

Anselm Kiefer - Everyone Stands Under His Own Dome of Heaven, 1970

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix - Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1822


'Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.'

Mark Twain

Bleed Me An Ocean

Andres Serrano - Bloodstream, 1987


'The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The Gods At Play

Jesus action figure


'Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Scepticism Is Money In The Bank

René Descartes on the 100F note


'Doubt grows with knowledge.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The Neverending Moment

Edward Hopper - Hotel Lobby, 1943


'Few people have the imagination for reality.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

I Heard You While You Weren't Talking

Jenny Holzer - The Living Series: It Takes a While, 1980-82


'When ideas fail, words come in very handy.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The Problem Is The Answer

The Trapezium Nebula


'Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

If I Were Roman, Ya Ha Deedle Deedle, Bubba Bubba Deedle Deedle Dum

Johann Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829)- Goethe in the Roman Campagna, c. 1848


'A unused life is an early death.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Clouds Are A Dreamer's Best Friend

John Constable (1777-1837) - Cloud Study, 1822


'One symptom of impending nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.'

Bertrand Russell

Back To Black

Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) - Guarded Conditions, 1989

Toying With Beauty And Beastliness

Action figures for 'Eye of the Beholder', The Twilight Zone, 1960

'A civilised society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'

Robert Frost

Martin's Creed

Martin Creed (b. 1968) - Work No. 275, Small Things, 2003


'Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it.'

Philip K. Dick

Andres Get Your Gun

Andres Serrano (b. 1950) - The Objects of Desire: Virginian Dragoon .44 Magnum (top), Virginian Dragoon .44 Magnum (8), 1992 (middle) and Colt D.A. 38 (3), 1992 (bottom)

A Void Cannot Be Vacuumed

Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) - Untitled (One Hundred Spaces), 1995


'It is not certain that everything is uncertain.'

Blaise Pascal

Rehousing The Furniture Of The Id

Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006

'The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.'

Jean-Jacques Rousseau