Excerpts from the book “Dreams of Art”

Artists have always been fascinated with dreams. Just like dreams, their paintings often show events simultaneously happening in the past, present and future. At times, their art depicts everyday objects in a new way and turns them into symbols. In this context, dreaming is understood as a more perceptive kind of seeing. Dreams mostly consist of pictures. William Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummernight’s Dream” bears witness to the fact that the great playwright also delved into the world of dreams – dreams, too, tend to lack clarity and order.