DARIA GABRIEL


Your favourite virtue ::
kindness

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
humor, intelligence, sensuality

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
humor, intelligence, sensuality

Your favourite occupation ::
creating

Your idea of happiness ::
making love

Your idea of misery ::
loneliness

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a surfer/snowboarder

Where would you like to live ::
near the sea

Your favourite colour and flower ::
the color of the sea by moonlight, orchid

Your favourite prose authors ::
Philip K Dick, Kate Chopin, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Paul Bowles, Virginia Woolf, George Sand, Oscar Wilde, Edith Warton, Flannery O'Connor

Your favourite poets ::
Rimbaud, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Sylvia Plath

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Tom Sawyer, Atticus Finch, Tyler Durdan, Peter Pan

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Pippi Longstocking, Holly Golightly, Edna Pontellier, Ellen Olenska

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Ad Rheinhardt, Mark Rothko, John Cage, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arvo Part, Brian Eno, Gerhardt Richter, Sigmar Polke, Cathy de Monchaux, einsturzende neubauten

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
those who show kindness and tolerance to others

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
those who show kindness and tolerance to others

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
those who exploit and damage others and our planet

Your favourite food and drink ::
sushi, fresh fruit, cheese and wine

Your favourite names ::
the names of those I love

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
unkindness and intolerance

The change you most anticipate ::
that humans shall learn to live in harmony with each other and our planet

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
to fly like a bird

How I would like to die ::
at peace

What is your present state of mind ::
open

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
restlessness

Your favourite motto ::
exuberance is beauty

19 juin 2010

Daria Gabriel is a multi-disciplined artist who resides in California.

website :: Daria Gabriel

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.