What started as a creative linguistic exercise to play with French vocabulary, gradually project No. 38 amassed into a vast collection of drawings and quotes. There is something addicting about dedicating time to impermanent objects, to things designed only to be momentary. 38 is a temporary sketchbook, each mirror drawing erased to make room for the next.
Below is a random sampling of the nearly 250 made to date.
Each man hides within him a child who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joy is in everything you have to know how to extract it.
Confucius
Death forever? Who can say it?
Marcel Proust
The human being is a hive of beings.
Gaston Bachelard
From the egg of hatred, however small it may be, monsters can hatch.
Henri Frédéric Amile
Why withdraw and abandon the game when we have so many people to disappoint?
Emil Michel Cioran
He who gives nothing has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
He loses, the one who knows what he'll do if he wins. He wins, the one who know what he'll do if he loses.
Machiavelli
Who combats too much with the dragon becomes the dragon himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The universe does not allow perfection.
Stephen Hawking
No man is free if he does not know how to control himself.
Pythagoras of Samos
Not until we are lost, not until we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is closer to the absolute than a love in the process of being born.
jean d'Ormesson
Perfect happiness is something very close to sadness.
Charlie Chaplin
We occasionally wonder if life makes sense... and then we encounter people who give meaning to life.
Brassaï
If there were no winter, spring would not be so enjoyable: if we did not taste adversity, success would not be so appreciated.
Anne Bradstreet
To achieve something truly extraordinary, start by dreaming it.
Walt Disney
A bad experience is worth more than good advice.
Paul Valéry
The facts all belong to the problem, not to its solution.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is during the storm that we learn to know the pilot.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Intelligence is like parachutes, when we haven one, we crash.
Pierre Desproges
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy consciousness are the secrets of happiness.
Mark Twain
The secret to change is to focus ones energy to create something new, not to fight against the old.
Dan Millman
There is perhaps nothing that ennobles a human being more than knowing how to keep a secret.
Søren Kierkegaard
The robbed who smiles steals something from his thief.
William Shakespeare
Being the richest man in the cemetery does not interest me.
Steve Jobs
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Sir Isaac Newton
There are people who increase your solitude by coming to disturb it.
Sacha Guitry
Truth is the daughter of time and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Johannes Kepler
All is change, not to be no more but to become what is not yet.
Épictète
If death were good, the gods would not be immortal.
Sappho
BRANDING PROJECT NO 9
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It is when each of us waits until the other begins that nothing happens.
Abbé Pierre
That the sun will rise tomorrow is a hypothesis
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world belongs to the optimists, the pessimists are only spectators.
François Guizot
Smile, because your teeth are not just made to eat or bite.
Man Ray
Life is a rose of which each petal is an illusion and each thorn a relaity.
Alfred De Musset
When success takes one step towards you, step back two.
Pierre Reverdy
I kiss my rival, but it is to smother him.
Jean Racine
Nothing deceives us as much as our judgement.
Leonardo de vinci
You must be someone, nothing something.
édouard Herriot
Things almost never happen the way we imagine them.
Marie de Rabutin-chantal, Marquise de sévigné
Freedom still exists. Just pay the price.
Henry de Montherlant
The illusions of life fall one by one like leaves from an autumn tree.
John Antoine Petit-Senn
All men are crazy and whoever does not want to see must stay in his room and break his mirror.
Marquis de sade
Mom, is not yesterday over?
Louis Charles, to Marie Antoinette June 1791
A solution that demolishes you is better than any uncertainty.
boris Vain
Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de lamartine
What men actually want is not knowledge, it is certainty.
Bertrand Russell
What good is it to frequent Plato when a saxophone has the power just as well to show us a glimpse into another world.
