Oude meesters | 
I‘ve got 41 pages left to read and it‘s been over a week. Currently holding down my Daily Bible pages while hanging out with Booker. Not a fan of this book‘s run on sentences so it‘s taking me forever. 🙄
I still plan on finishing it. Not good at DNFs!!
#catsoflitsy
pickA monkey painting its portrait. The cover of OUDE MEESTERS confirms Thomas Bernhard's views on art and artists.
pickFor more than 30 years Reger has spend his mornings in the art history museum in Vienna. He is filled with a deep disgust of almost anything. He complains about Vienna, Austria and the Austrians, about writers, composers, philosophers and especially the Old Masters of painting. The reason for Reger‘s hating the arts becomes slowly clear: after the death of his wife, art is the only thing he can still cling to. #1001books
“I suffer from what I call art selfishness: where art is concerned, I wish to have everything for myself alone.... I should like to think that Goya painted only for me, that Gogol and Goethe wrote only for me, that Bach composed only for me.”
(Picture: Tintoretto, ‘Man with a white beard‘, the painting this book is about)
