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“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”
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“The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.”
Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge
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“Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.”
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“A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.”
Source : Harry Mulisch (2011). “The Assault”, p.43, Pantheon
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“Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.”
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“Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.”
Source : Gerald Asher (2011). “A Vineyard in My Glass”, p.2, Univ of California Press
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“Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.”
Source : Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
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“The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.”
Source : 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.
