Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON
Letter
The fact is that very few things have so much effect on the feeling inside a room as the sun shining into it.
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
A Pattern Language
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
HENRI MATISSE
Chatting with Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
MARIO MANLIO ROSSI
“Essay on the Character of Swift”
If you ever want to keep up a grudge against someone, don’t see that person alongside beautiful flowers.
JAMAICA KINCAID
My Garden (Book)
All the colors burn up in the unseen higher vibrations of glory.
JOHN HOLLANDER
“Orange”
I am a great believer in the seasons. Even here in my own world, I have no relish for sweet corn in January or strawberries in November.
PEARL S. BUCK
My Several Worlds
