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“Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.”

Art Light Beautiful Form Morning Cutting Expression Flower Elements Rose Smell Traditional Delicate Perfume Dew Damp Arranging Minimalist Bouquets Japanese Art

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.”

Air Expression Speech Fairs Possession Delicate Petals Pansies

Book:The Writings of Bret Harte

Source: The Writings of Bret Harte

“The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.”

Artist Brain Expression Invisible Sensations Delicate Great Art Great Artist

Book:An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

Source: An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

“I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.”

I Can Earth Hours Grace Planets Expression Quiet Senses Witness Loud Delicate Our Planet Manifold

Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.”

World Real Whole Character Beautiful Law Choices Speak Force Expression Materials Capacity Rhythm Real World Cosmic Delicate Brutal Life Choices

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.”

Seems Language Mankind Expression Flower Taste Universal Mediums Symbols Serving Sentiments Delicate Finest Gross Fitting

Author:George Stillman Hillard