"Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw."

-- Andrew Graham-Dixon

#Powerful Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Light Quotes

“How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.”
“a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.”
“I race kind of sparingly.”
“The love I knew was from books..”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”
“I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.”
“I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.”
“Maybe you should just press the button”
“When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.”

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