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| Franz Hanfstängl Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen 1853 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Édouard Vuillard Portrait of Misia Godebska ca. 1890 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Robert Delaunay Époque du St Sévérin no. 5 1909-1910 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Lyubov Popova Figure Study ca. 1914-16 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Amédée Ozenfant Composition with Floating Polyhedrons 1916 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Amedeo Modigliani Seated Woman ca. 1917-19 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Juan Gris L'Homme au Violon 1918 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| László Moholy-Nagy Composition ca. 1925 gouache on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| André Derain Tête de Femme ca. 1928 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Amédée Ozenfant Composition 1929 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| El Lissitzky For a Strong, Healthy and Free Human Race! 1937 photomontage (gelatin silver prints) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| André Masson Le Mort et le Vif before 1946 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Rudolf Bauer Composition before 1953 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Serge Poliakoff Composition before 1956 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Zao Wou-ki Composition 1956 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Fritz Kempe Portrait of Max Ernst 1964 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Olivia Parker Parasol ca. 1976-77 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
To live long, is it not to be long troubled? But number thy years, which are now ( ), and thou shalt find, that whereas ten have over-lived thee, thousands have not attained this age. One year is sufficient to behold all the magnificence of nature, nay, even one day and night: for more is but the same brought again. This sun, that moon, these stars, the varying dance of the spring, summer, autumn, winter, is that very same which the golden age did see. They which have the longest time lent them to live in have almost no part of it at all, measuring it either by that space of time which is past, when they were not, or by that which is to come. Why shouldst thou then care whether thy days be many or few, which, when prolonged to the uttermost, prove, paralleled with eternity, as a tear is to the ocean? To die young is to do that soon and in some fewer days which once thou must do; it is but the giving over of a game that (after never so many hazards) must be lost. When thou hast lived to that age thou desirest, or one of Plato's years, so soon as the last of thy days riseth above thy horizon, thou wilt then as now demand longer respite, and expect more to come. The oldest are most unwilling to die. It is hope of long life that maketh life seem short. Who will behold, and with the eyes of judgment behold, the many changes depending on human affairs, with the after-claps of fortune, shall never lament to die young.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden, from A Cypress Grove (London: Hawthornden Press, 1919, reprinting the original edition of 1623)