Konstantin Ray

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Somtimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. Edvard Munch

We have art in order not to die of the truth... F.Nietzsche


If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. -Pier Paolo Pasolini


Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by
themselves or by others.
The fear of death follows from the fear of
life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain


The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The dangerof the future is that man may become robots. - Erich Fromm



The soul, being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been released.
If it has been a long time in the body, and has become tame by many affairs and long habit,
the soul will immediately take another body and once again become involved in the troubles of the world.
The worst thing about old age is that the soul's memory of the other world grows dim,
while at the same time its attachment to things of this world becomes so strong that the soul tends to retain the form that it had in the body. But that soul which remains only a short time within a body, until liberated by the higher powers, quickly recovers its fire and goes on to higher things."- Plutarch



"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." — Virginia Woolf



“There are men who fight one day and they are good. There are others who fight one year and they are better.There are those who fight many years and they are very good. But there are those who fight a lifetime: those are the ones who are indispensable.” - Bertolt Brecht


There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. " G.K. Chesterton


"I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other
.In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together."— Jean-Paul Sartre


He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk
and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche


Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turnit into a fact. - Honore de Balzac



"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.— Virginia Woolf



An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.- Albert Camus



Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco


Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso


"And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth." — Raymond Chandler


I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. -Sylvia Plath


He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. - Buddha


It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how
the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and
bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius –



“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” –Le Corbusier


“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” –Le Corbusier


I'am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.....W. Whitman


Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.
If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.-Truman Capote


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus –


"How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.
' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to my films."-Stanley Kubrick


The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. - Philip Roth



The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine


"Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too."—Tennessee Williams


Εach man's hell is in a different
place: mine is just up and behind
my ruined face... C. Bukowski


The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated.
But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing or ready to consider the meaning
and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, ‘I don’t like it!’ ‘It’s boring!’
It is not a point that one can argue; but it is like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow.
He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached.--Andrei Tarkovsky


I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing
to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse togo to war. (Albert Einstein)



Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included...
something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. - Joseph Beuys


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. — E.E. Cummings



One feels inclined to say that the intention that the man should be happy is not included in plan of creation - Sigmund Freud


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1996 -Award of Union of Bulgarian Artist in annual art exposition of artist-teachers

2019 - nomination category Painting for the award of Alliance Bulgaria