
“Vou experimentar tudo o que possa, não quero me ausentar do mundo.”
“Vou experimentar tudo o que possa, não quero me ausentar do mundo.”
Memoirs of a Geisha
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Walden - Página 158, Henry David Thoreau - Plain Label Books, 1968, ISBN 1603037470, 9781603037471 - 294 páginas
Walden
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. But they are shapes. They bring the world into focus. They corral ideas. They hone thoughts. They paint watercolors of perception.
A Natural History of the Senses - Página 7, de Diane Ackerman - Vintage Books, 1995, ISBN 0679735666, 9780679735663 - 331 páginas