Patina Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
— Urs Fischer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: