"An artist feeds on his childhood his entire life. The shape and form of his childhood determine the nature of his art." ― Andrei Tarkovsky

― Sylvia Plath, in a letter to Aurelia Plath

from letters of james joyce

Towards the Forest 1897 Woodcut Edvard Munch

from the diaries of franz kafka

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

Mermaid Legend (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1984)

"Feelings unspoken are unforgettable." Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, 1997)

Abbas Kiarostami.

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Le Sang d'un poète (Jean Cocteau, 1930)

Scenes from a Marriage (1973) / Ingmar Bergman

Akira Kurosawa.

Hybrid (Jack Chambers, 1967)

Tokyo Blood (Gakuryu Ishii, 1993)

from the early diary of anaïs nin

from the letters of james joyce