"He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills."

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Oil Quotes #Smell Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.”
“In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.”
“There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."”
“Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.”
“Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.”
“I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.”
“The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.”

Source : Jan Tschichold (1967). “Asymmetric Typography”, New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation
“I have had to learn about saying no.”

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