"In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces."

-- Vera Brosgol

#Book Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Past Quotes

“I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.”
“The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.”
“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
“No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.”
“Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.”
“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.”
“For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.”
“You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.”

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