“In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...” WayTryingFeelingsOrderProcessCasesCuttingWalkingStandingRemainsExcessLinkedPencilsEleganceEliminatingCutting Off Author:Yohji Yamamoto
“The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.” WorldSaidFeelingsHandsLastsDiesThis WorldVictimLaysAssumingCreditViolentExcessIndifferentAlasDisgustedEnnuiInactivity Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.” MayFeelingsReligiousMusicMoralMankindMusic IsSensualInjuryExcessIndulgeGratificationIndulge In Author:Joseph Addison
“It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.” WritingFeelingsFatherHorrorIntensityExcessHookFridayOur FatherWoodyNancyPhilipRunaway Book:At Large Source: At Large
“We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.” FeelsFeelingsSufferingQualityEffectsColdExtremesHeatExcessVariance Author:Blaise Pascal