Tag Archives: Zitat

Quotation ♦ Zitieren

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Siri: “Do you really know what a quote is?” Selma: “A tattoo on the lips.” Siri: “Weißt du, was ein Zitat ist?” Selma: „Klar doch, eine Tätowierung der Lippen.“ When I read Rebecca’s celebration of quotes on her marvellous blog ChasingArt I felt the urge to contradict playing the advocatus diaboli. I am surrounded by …

MILLI

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“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” – Joan Miró Milli, 8 Jahre, Fredrikstad, Norwegen, 2013                            – …

Bridges across the Cam in Cambridge

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“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” – Ralph Ellison (My favourite quote to bridges and interesting facts to this bridge in particular  is coming up soon on kbvollmarblog ) 🙂 “I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.” – Max Beckmann “One of the hardest things in life to …

Scream – Der Schrei nach Edvard Munch

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    ♦♦♦ “I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could …

Postcard from Trinity College, Dublin

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Have you been to Dublin lately? We went there last month. We met Perfectlight, which was really great. A fortnight is rather short for the City of Literature, though… You thought Dublin in November’d be grey, wet and dull, right? Come with us to Trinity College. Let’s go to The Old Library, the Long Room. …

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

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“…It’s surely clear that to describe Dublin as a City of Literature would be like saying rain sometimes falls in Ireland”. – Joseph O’Connor – author of Star of the Sea “He’d … settled into a life of Guinness, sarcasm and late, late nights, the kind of life that American academics think real Dubliners lead”. …

Postcard from Marsh’s Library, Dublin

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“It’s history. It’s love of words… It’s a city of literature, of course it’s. It’s Dublin.”   –  John Boyne, author of “The boy in the Striped Pyjama” “The Library: Home of the world’s wisdom and the sustenance of the soul.”   –  M.E. DeBakey You can see more of my photos from this beautiful library on …