Mindfully ME

by David Hockney

David Hockney

— Socrates

Night, Rome City, Indiana, 1909

Portrait of Marilyn in a swimming pool at Milton Greene’s home in Connecticut, June 1955.

— Dr. Seuss

"George Dear, Don't overwork - keep well and why don't you think of me sometimes. I wish I could give you something that would serve as a reminder but upon looking I find nothing detachable. After I see you I spend days in longing - not unhappily so. You see, before I knew you, as now - I was always asking myself - am I still alive - why don't I feel anything? That is - nothing excepting fear or pain and anything else that took place in me I had to make up - and I knew…"

Marilyn Monroe wearing a William Travila in wardrobe tests for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1952. 

Poster for Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) by Tony Stella.