"All our dreams begin in youth. As a child I found the achievements of the heroes of our day far more inspiring than book-learning. The men who went out to explore new lands or with toil and self-sacrifice fitted themselves to become champions in a field of sport, the conquerors of the great peaks - to imitate such men was the goal of my ambition."
- Heinrich Harrer

Yayoi Kusama, Night Rain, 1998

Dolomites

Aa Herregud Lok Op Da Jenter 01, Theodor Severin Kittelsen

Pain (1893), Carlos Schwabe

Andreas Heckmair

Jean Louis Michel, Alys

“A true fox calls sour not only those grapes he is unable to reach but also those he has reached and deprived others of.”

—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §244.

Wassily Kandinsky, Heavy Circles, 1927

Gustave Doré - L’Énigme (The Enigma), The Sphinx overlooking France's defeat by Prussia in 1870

Little Drummer Girl

René Burri, Dead lotus flowers on the Kunming Lake, Beijing, China, 1964