The White Road Quotes

“There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.”
― Edmund de Waal, The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

“The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote.
Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.”
― Edmund de Waal, The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

“And so you paint pagodas and carp and phoenixes, but you also paint English country houses, and churches and coats of arms, the crucifixion, inscriptions in Persian and Arabic, carnations and tulips, mottos in Latin and knights in armour and Andromeda. v”
― Edmund de Waal, The White Road: Journey into an Obsession