Bauhaus students in a circle - Robert Lenz (top), Hin Bredendieck (right), Lony Neumann (bottom) and Hermann (Sven) Gautel

Entrance door with umbrellas, Cy Twombly’s house in Rome, 1965, Horst P. Horst 

Burlington Daily News, Vermont, June 7, 1926

I'm riding the train to the zoo
While i'm writing a postcard to you
But what I wanna write never fits

Welcome to the party, acrylic, 2014

Robert Smith, 1996, by Steve Gullick

The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.
- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, Chapter " Tries to Cook and Eat Girl", p. 345.

Tokyo Decadence (AKA Topâzu), Ryû Murakami, 1992

The Damned Soul is a sculpture made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1619 when he was only 20 years old. It portrays a human soul that is damned to hell. The sculpture is made of marble and is carved from the neck up.

Ernst Haas, Central Park, Spring, 1970

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

Debbie Harry, 1977

Gould chose solitude as the subject of his first radio program, The Idea of North, which was broadcast by the CBC in 1967. He was attracted to perfect solitude in its extreme and saw his own compromises—watching television, for example—as weaknesses. He saw himself as a hermit, though his withdrawal from the world was imperfect. In the act of making the documentary, he expressed his reverence for the true ascetic.
- Glenn Gould , Variations on Solitude