Quotes by : Edmund de Waal

All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way....

There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.....

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense....

Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because....

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.....

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this....