Mengxi Tan

“The fundamental paradox between Morris's dream-worlds and the reality of the Victorian Age was only one of many that existed within his life and work: the rich man who preached revolution to the poor; the gentleman and the artisan; the bard and the businessman; the "idle singer of an empty day" driven "to do the work of ten men"; and the hopeless romantic caught in a loveless marriage.”
― Charlotte Fiell, Morris

“I wouldn't know what to do with (color). Color to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a color, the more dreamy it gets.... Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”
― David Lynch, David Lynch: The Factory Photographs

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde