
„Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.“
— Leonard Cohen Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934 - 2016
Quelle: The Favorite Game
Original: (el) Οὐκ αἰεὶ θέρος ἐσσεῖται· ποιεῖσθε καλιάς.
Quelle: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.
Οὐκ αἰεὶ θέρος ἐσσεῖται· ποιεῖσθε καλιάς.
„Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.“
— Leonard Cohen Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934 - 2016
Quelle: The Favorite Game
„A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.“
— Sam Rayburn lawmaker from Bonham, Texas 1882 - 1961
Said during filmed conversation with reporters (c. 1953); reported in "Speak, Mister Speaker" (1978), p. 138.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
— E. B. White American writer 1899 - 1985
A Winter Diary: January, 1941 http://books.google.com/books?id=Kq7WAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+am+always+humbled+by+the+infinite+ingenuity+of+the+lord+who+can+make+a+red+barn+cast+a+blue+shadow%22&g=PA170#v=onepage
One Man's Meat (1942)
— Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.
— Evelyn Waugh British writer 1903 - 1966
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
— James Nicoll Canadian fiction reviewer 1961
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2000s
„The first principle of good barn design is flexibility of space.“
— Ken Kern American writer
p, 125
The Owner-Built Homestead (1977)
— Karel Appel Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet 1921 - 2006
describing the location outside Paris, where he makes his large relief compositions
Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968
„Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.“
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Quelle: The Fires of Heaven
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German scientist, satirist 1742 - 1799
F 39
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
„Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!“
— John Galsworthy English novelist and playwright 1867 - 1933
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918)
„I hear always the sad voices
of summer
passing like red winged birds
over the high grass“
— Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966
Red Winged Birds (1917)
— Avram Davidson novelist 1923 - 1993
Quelle: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter V (p. 49)
— Willem de Kooning Dutch painter 1904 - 1997
The impact of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943): de Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, Bacon, publisher: Hatje Cantz, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (Köln), 2001.
Answer on the question who is his favourite artist, probably made around 1977.
1990's & from posthumous publications