‘But I was in search of love in those days. At last, I should find that low door in the wall (..) which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.’
Evelyn Waugh -
Brideshead Revisited, 1945
Brideshead Revisited - film, 1981
‘The fortnight in Venice passed quickly and sweetly -
perhaps too sweetly. I was drowning in honey, stingless …’
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945
Gerhard Richter, Venice Staircase, 1985
‘Sometimes’, said Julia, ‘I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.’
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945
Martin Parr, Liverpool 1983
‘Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.’
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revised, 1945
📷 Rurik Dmitrienko, Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, 2006
‘I should like to bury something precious in every place where I have been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.’ -
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945
‘But I was in search of love in those days. At last, I should find that low door in the wall (..) which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city’
Evelyn Waugh
Monet in his garden in Giverny
‘I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, ...’ - Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited, 1945| Ph. @ReinfriedMarass
‘The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea
With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy.
Let me shipwreck in your thighs.’
Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood, 1953 (published posthumously in 1954)
Gerhard Richter - Korsika Schiffer, 1968
Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (completed between 1903 and 1907) is located at the Neue Galerie New York in New York City, United States.
#art#arts#finearts
🌿Elle ne m’appartient plus, ma vie.
Je l’ai déjà dit.
Je ne me mets pas en scène. Mais la première personne du singulier exprime pour moi tout le concret de l’homme. Toute métaphysique est à la première personne du singulier. Toute poésie aussi.
Aragon
Le Songe du paysan