"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain"
- Jhonen Vasquez
About this Quote
This quote by Jhonen Vasquez speaks to the power of individual experience and how it can form our aesthetic preferences. He is expressing his tourist attraction to the visual of gothic style, which he credits to his childhood and the environment he was exposed to. This suggests that our experiences can have a long lasting effect on our tastes and interests, which we can be drawn to particular looks without necessarily understanding why. It likewise implies that our environment can form our choices in such a way that we may not even understand. Eventually, this quote speaks with the power of our experiences and how they can shape our aesthetic choices.
This quote is written / told by Jhonen Vasquez somewhere between September 1, 1974 and today. He/she was a famous Cartoonist from USA.
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