Love is blind.

“Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne”

Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Colchiques (extrait de "Alcools"), 1913

René Magritte - The Lovers II (1928)

Please sir, tell me more about how I could have done better

“Criticism comes easier than craftmanship” 

Zeuxis, painter (5th century BC)

Prisoner of my own by shimoda7 (deviantart)

Is the unexamined life not worth living..?

“Often I go into some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines…you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That is not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.” 

Michael Crichton, Travels

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818