Going Out With Inge.
136 photos
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Walking Amsterdam With Inge
120 photos
The artist is the antennae of the race.
Walking Haarlem With Inge
9 photos
Life is hard, unfair, painful. But life is also guaranteed - one hundred percent, no doubt, no question - to offer unexpected and sudden moments of beauty, joy, love, acceptance, euphoria.
Walking Utrecht With Inge
7 photos
A smoke, a photoshoot, a cup of coffee.
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.
Amsterdam (1)
300 photos
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
Amsterdam (2)
300 photos
I had a friend one time, at least I thought he was my friend.
For he came to me, said "I ain't got no place to go."
Amsterdam (3)
300 photos
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to...
Amsterdam (4)
300 photos
But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door.
Amsterdam (5)
300 photos
Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire...
Amsterdam (6)
300 photos
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus?
Amsterdam (7)
300 photos
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
Amsterdam (8)
106 photos
The Motorway - A10 - A4 - A9
57 photos
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to...
Amsterdam - Albert Cuypstraat
44 photos
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
Amsterdam - Amsteldijk
16 photos
Rise so high, in mud you lie.
Amsterdam - Amstelstation
19 photos
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because I don't know how to say it - a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Amsterdam - Amstelveenseweg
47 photos
You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Amsterdam - Arent Janszoon Ernststraat
3 photos
Every man must die. But first he must live.
Amsterdam - Baarjesweg
6 photos
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Amsterdam - Van Baerlestraat
12 photos
When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.
Amsterdam - Beethovenstraat - De Boelelaan
16 photos
I am more of a mess than a rainy day because you have no idea I feel this way.
Amsterdam - Bernard Kochstraat
6 photos
There will be no one left to remember, let alone you.
Amsterdam - Bilderdijkstraat
14 photos
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
Amsterdam - Brouwersgracht
10 photos
Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.
Amsterdam - Buiksloterweg
4 photos
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind.
Amsterdam - Buitenveldertselaan
12 photos
Most people have no idea that tragedy and silence often have the exact same address.
Amsterdam - Ceintuurbaan
18 photos
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
Amsterdam - Cornelis Krusemanstraat
6 photos
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Àmsterdam - Czaar Peterstraat
11 photos
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Amsterdam - De Clercqstraat
6 photos
ometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never...
Amsterdam - Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat
24 photos
Death must be so beautiful. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Amsterdam - Eerste Helmersstraat
6 photos
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for...
Amsterdam - Eerste Jan van der Heijdenstraat -...
5 photos
I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.
Amsterdam - Eerste Oosterparkstraat
9 photos
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
Amsterdam - Europaplein
9 photos
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the...
Amsterdam - Ferdinand Bolstraat
20 photos
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
Amsterdam - Gedempt Hamerkanaal - Schaafstraat
12 photos
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Amsterdam - Gerard Doustraat
8 photos
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Amsterdam - Govert Flinckstraat
23 photos
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.
Amsterdam - Havenstraat
34 photos
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
Amsterdam - Heemstedestraat
14 photos
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death.
Amsterdam - HJE Wenckebachweg
10 photos
Accept damnation, it has its power and its charm. And it's real.
Amsterdam - Hobbemakade - Ruysdaelkade
9 photos
I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however, was a single human being to be seen.
Amsterdam - Jacob van Lennepkade
6 photos
A bridge too far.
Amsterdam - Jan Evertsenstraat
5 photos
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
Amsterdam - Kalfjeslaan
25 photos
I am a part of all that I have met.
Amsterdam - Kinkerstraat
10 photos
Let me ask you something first. Do you want a regular vanilla relationship with no kinky fuckery at all?
Amsterdam - Korte Prinsengracht
21 photos
It's as if I'm watching images of my life flash by.
Amsterdam - Lange Leidsedwarsstraat
7 photos
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and...
Amsterdam - Leidsestraat
4 photos
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
Amsterdam - Lijnbaansgracht
10 photos
I get it, good cop, bad cop, eh?
Amsterdam - Marnixstraat
19 photos
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
Amsterdam - Meeuwenlaan
6 photos
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
Amsterdam - Metro - Subway - Underground
89 photos
It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to quit
all at once: automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only...
Amsterdam - Middenweg
8 photos
Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.
Amsterdam - Museumplein
16 photos
For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.
Amsterdam - NDSM
97 photos
Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.
Amsterdam - Olympisch Stadion - Stadionplein
12 photos
Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.
Amsterdam - Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal
9 photos
The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe...
Amsterdam - Van Ostadestraat
6 photos
Real isn't how you are made, it's a thing that happens to you.
Amsterdam - Overtoom
19 photos
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Amsterdam - Parnassusweg
27 photos
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Amsterdam - Postjesweg
5 photos
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
Amsterdam - Prinseneiland
5 photos
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels.
Amsterdam - Reguliersgracht
11 photos
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult.
Amsterdam - Rietlandpark
5 photos
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
Amsterdam - Roelof Hartstraat
4 photos
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Amsterdam - Rokin
5 photos
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real...
Amsterdam - Rozengracht
8 photos
Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
Amsterdam - Rustenburgerstraat
6 photos
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Amsterdam - Sarphatipark
12 photos
Believe me, you're in for one hell of a ride, after all––this is the one thing I know for sure.
Amsterdam - Singel
23 photos
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Amsterdam - Spaklerweg
18 photos
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure.
Amsterdam - Spuistraat
24 photos
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Amsterdam - Stadhouderskade
14 photos
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Amsterdam - Stationsplein
13 photos
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because I don't know how to say it - a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Amsterdam - Station Zuid
13 photos
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
Amsterdam - Strawinskylaan
14 photos
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Amsterdam - Tasmanstraat - Pontsteiger - van...
9 photos
Barrel boys don’t have parents. We’re born in the harbour and crawl out of the canals.
Amsterdam - Tweede Jan Steenstraat
7 photos
So many books, so little time.
Amsterdam - Uilenstede
29 photos
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Amsterdam _ Utrechtsestraat
25 photos
Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Amsterdam - Vijzelgracht
11 photos
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
Amsterdam - Weesperstraat
5 photos
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
Amsterdam - Wibautstraat
19 photos
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Amsterdam - Willemsparkweg
5 photos
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Amsterdam - Van Woustraat
12 photos
He who does not quite achieve what he wants to achieve does not get rid of the question, whether he would not better give up every effort to achieve something, instead of doing if achieving something...
Amsterdam - Zeeburg
23 photos
Remember, you will survive, things could be worse, and we are never given anything we can’t handle.
Amsterdam - Amsterdam Zuidoost
11 photos
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.
The Netherlands (1)
300 photos
Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations.
The Netherlands (2)
300 photos
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis.
The Netherlands (3)
300 photos
For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
The Netherlands (4)
300 photos
I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
The Netherlands (5)
300 photos
The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
The Netherlands (6)
300 photos
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
The Netherlands (7)
300 photos
Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, Why are we here?
Plastic… asshole.
The Netherlands (8)
300 photos
Get over it. Get your head outta your ass. And find what you deserve. Find some fuckin’ happy.
The Netherlands (9)
246 photos
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
Alkmaar
3 photos
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Alleys
192 photos
If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.
Amersfoort
17 photos
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Amstelveen
54 photos
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are...
Amsterdamse Bos
89 photos
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Arnhem
19 photos
A city. Good. I was worried... it'd be a garden. I hate that shit.
Art
264 photos
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
B&W (1)
300 photos
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
B&W (2)
300 photos
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
B&W (3)
176 photos
Dreams, always dreams! And the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility.
Belgium
53 photos
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Berlin
74 photos
Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.
Bicycles (2021-09-21 till now)
236 photos
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Bretagne And Normandie
20 photos
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe.
Broek in Waterland
9 photos
Let us find the dam snack bar. We should eat while we can.
Delft
1 photo
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
De Rijp
7 photos
Ya'll, I know this world is far from perfect.
Den Haag - Scheveningen - Delft
11 photos
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Den Helder
10 photos
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Desolation
271 photos
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
Devon And Cornwall
80 photos
If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.
Doesburg
2 photos
Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small.
Dordrecht
10 photos
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
England
272 photos
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
France
181 photos
Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France.
Gouda
5 photos
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Groningen
5 photos
Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
Heerlen
5 photos
You city boys and your psychologists. Just what we need, some fancy-pants lollygaggin' around telling us all how we need to get in touch with our inner child...I find that little inner bastard and...
Haarlem
24 photos
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules.
Hoorn
4 photos
All were omnipotent, omniscient and immortal. And all are dead.
Ilfracombe
16 photos
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
In Between (1)
300 photos
It's very beautiful over there. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere.
In between (2)
300 photos
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
In Between (3)
163 photos
The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
In Explore
47 photos
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...
Italy
62 photos
It is fate that I am here, but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
Kampen
4 photos
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Katwijk aan Zee
1 photo
And if my heart be scarred and burned, the safer, I, for all I learned.
Laren
27 photos
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
Liège
45 photos
You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust...
Liverpool
63 photos
There was madness in any direction, at any hour.
London
52 photos
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Loneliness
199 photos
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Monnickendam
3 photos
I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
Napoli
43 photos
Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in Paris?
Newcastle upon Tyne
57 photos
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
New York City
7 photos
Nothing was ever in tune.
Newquay
24 photos
In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us.
Night (1)
300 photos
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Night (2)
31 photos
I'm sure
the happy splash of wine will cure your mood.
We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.
Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.
Noordwijk aan Zee
1 photo
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today...
Noord Beemster
2 photos
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Out Of Focus
151 photos
Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings.
Paris
151 photos
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Rotterdam - Schiedam - Dordrecht
41 photos
If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.
Scheveningen
5 photos
All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
Schiedam
12 photos
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Scotland
29 photos
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Sicilia
8 photos
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
Siena
12 photos
My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.
Stations
215 photos
It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.
Tubbergen
7 photos
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Tunnels and viaducts
172 photos
Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn't. It ends or it doesn't.
Utrecht
106 photos
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets.
United Kingdom
302 photos
Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish.
Veluwe
14 photos
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of...
Zandvoort Aan Zee
12 photos
It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges.
Vasse - Hezingen
7 photos
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Zaandam
20 photos
It was a “pointless” action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this.
Zutphen
8 photos
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Zwolle
8 photos
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.