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Quotes from The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance — Edmund de Waal

born 1964 England

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Melancholy, I think, is a sort of default vagueness, a get-out clause, a smothering lack of focus.

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (2010)

I have been working long enough as a potter to know that being commissioned is an extremely delicate business. You are grateful, of course, but gratitude is different from feeling indebted. It is an interesting question for any artist: how long must you go on feeling grateful once someone has bought your work?

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund de Waal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.