Patina Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… — Susan Sontag
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I… — Edmund de Waal
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something… — Diana Vreeland
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them.… — Julia Cameron
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them. — Andy Goldsworthy
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think… — Peter Zumthor
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater… — Norman Mailer
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a… — Angela Carter
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks… — Ernst Toller

Who Wrote These Patina Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Patina Quotes as follows: