Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

- Albert Camus

Andreas Feininger, The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock), New York, 1951

Skjaerer, Theodor Severin Kittelsen

Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen

“It is not man but his revenge that is so subtle, rich, and inventive. He himself is hardly aware of it.”

—Daybreak, §228 (edited excerpt).

Peter Murphy of Bauhaus dancing with a strobe light at the Locarno, Birmingham, October 1981

Slowdive chilling in a graveyard, in front of Eric Arthur Blair's grave, also known as George Orwell

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.”
― Antonin Artaud

Blooms of Insect Wings created by photographer Seb Janiak

Paul Klee at his home in Bern, Switzerland, 1939.

Illustration by Noriyoshi Ohrai

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

- James Ellroy, My Dark Places

Untitled from the Permutations on the Picturesque series, John Pfahl, 1993-96