Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.