“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding”
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author
Variant: Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
“Love is a peculiar thing.”
Act I.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
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translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Ik houd van Thijs Maris en zijn dingen bezitten voor mij een eigenaardige bekooring.. .U zult zelf zeker van Thijs Maris houden en dan weet u.. ..hoe heerlijk het is mee te leven in zijn [Thijs!] kinderlijke innigheid.
In his letter to artist and art-critic Augustine Obreen, 16/19 June 1915; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 26
1915 - 1920