Book//mark – Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert, 1869
L'Education sentimentale, Gustave Flaubert, 1869 . “Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such...
Manuscripts and letters
Days [ ) Fog | Emily Dickinson, 1884
Ladislav Rozman, Untitled, 1930s “But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.” Emily Dickinson,...
Days [ ) Expect | Ezra Pound to James Joyce, 1917
Ezra Pound visiting James Joyces grave at Fluntern cemetery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1967 "If you will write for the intelligent, how...
A Nobody | Self portrait | Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
Vincent Van Gogh, Self portrait, 1890 “What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and...
Persons [ ] The Connections / Design / Architecture / Furniture / Films & Toys | Charles & Ray Eames, 1907-88
Charles & Ray Eames “Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to...
Persons [ ] Μy Success will Always be Less than my Failure | Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966
Alberto Giacometti, Small self-portrait, 1921 Alberto Giacometti, Bust of Annette VIII, 1962 . "It is impossible to do a thing...
Letter to an Oxford student on the uselessness of art | Oscar Wilde (1891)
Autograph letter signed, London, to Bernulf Clegg, 1891 . My Dear Sir Art is useless because its aim is simply...
Persons [ ] The Lesson | Simone Weil, 1909-43
Simone Weil (1909-1943) in her schoolgirl years "Love is not consolation. It is light.” “All sins are attempts to fill...
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | A poem by William Wordsworth (1802)
Hans Gude, Cloud Study over the Sea, 1870 . I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er...
Painters [*/ ) Color drawings | Federico García Lorca, 1925 -34
Federico García Lorca, El beso, 1927 ...