Fun Fact:

"The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line." - Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Viktor Vasnetsov and Hayao Miyazaki.

Sleeping Beauty/Howl's bedroom.

Two senseis of the visual arts.

L'Homme qui rit, The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History (or By Order of the King/On the King's Command) by Victor Hugo.

A poignant, profound and tragic story. 

One of my top ten.

Girlhood (French: Bande de filles, lit. "Group of Girls") by Céline Sciamma.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

True scary story:

In 1800s London, a surgeon named Robert Liston became somewhat of a local celebrity through his use of brute force and speed when performing operations, skills that were vital to the survival of a patient before anesthesia was discovered. Liston could remove your leg in less than 30 seconds and to keep both his hands free, he would hold the bloody knife between his teeth while working (tasty).

But just because Liston was good didn't mean he was perfect. One time, he accidentally sliced off his patient's bollock along with the leg he was amputating. Legends say his biggest mess up though happened when he worked so quickly, he cut off three of his assistant's fingers and while switching blades sliced through a spectator's coat. Both the assistant and the patient later died of gangrene and the unfortunate bystander died on the spot from fright. If the stories are true, that would mean this is the only surgery in history with reported 300% fatality rate.

So yeah, this surgeon killed three people in one operation.

The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) by Michael Ende.

A magnificent book.

"The limits of your language are the limits of your world." ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Red Turtle (French: La Tortue Rouge; Japanese: レッドタートル ある島の物語) by Michaël Dudok de Wit.

One of the most beautiful animated films.

A story about the circle of life and all its splendor and benign brutality. It's a masterpiece. Sublime animation and a deep meditation about life, love and man's place in the natural world.

The main character faces mysteries that elude him, but eventually surrenders to love, life and his place in the universe. This film is a poem.