"Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing."

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Source : Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.17, Random House

Sijie Dai

#Heart Quotes #Character Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.”
“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”
“Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.”
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
“Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.”
“What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.”
“There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.”
“I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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