Anyway have a collection of stuff our italian art/furniture restoration teacher has said:
âIf youâre in this business for money, youâre in the wrong business. Go work at McDonaldâs.â
âAll insects are referred to by their latin names. If you really want to piss off a conservator, ask him if heâs familiar with lactobacillius bulgaricus. He wonât be, thatâs in yoghurt.â
âA mirror doesnât usually wear down from being used. People that ugly are rare.â
âWhen I see the Alps I will instantly weep, because I know Iâm almost home. and if someone dismantled the Alps, Iâd cry harder. Moral of the story is, thereâs no pleasing me.â
âOne year a girl asked me if weâll have to use animal glue, because sheâs vegan. Iâm a vegetarian, too, and I can already promise you this: You donât have to eat the glue. Actually, now that I thought of it, Iâm forbidding it completely. If I see you eating glue in this class Iâm throwing you out.â
âIf a very old object has been kept well, it can still be in very good shape. Like a grandma. Old things are never ugly, they must be respected.â
âDo not put silicone breasts on the grandma.â
âIn the video interviews (for school entrance exams) there were some interesting, and even funny ones. None of you were funny, though. The funny ones didnât get in.â
âWhen I was in school, interior design was taught by an architect who didnât know anything about the subject. Never trust architects, they are evil.â
âLow-fat milk is only good for making milk paint, itâs poison. Itâs just chalk and water, and even the chalk has been removed. Low-fat milk is essentially nothing.â
[Has a 15-minute argument with a student about whether âdark blondeâ is a real hair colour]
âFresco also means âI am in prisonâ in italian, because itâs a bit cool. Or was, nowadays I think prisons are quite comfortable.â
âIdeally weâd use pure 100% ethanol, but weâre not allowed to get that anymore because weâre in Finland. They donât even sell pure ethanol to doctors or hospitals, because medical students kept stealing and drinking it.â
âThe man was - what was his name? Hefner. No, Defner, Hefner was the american. Apparently my brain rotates around playboy-magazines today.â
âThis may be the only example of this kind of object in Kymenlaakso. Do not drop it, I might suddenly become very violent if something happens to it.â
âI have a jar of shellac in my old workshop in Italy. Havenât been able to open it for 25 years. Every year, I try again.â
âIf you canât have a baby and donât want to break into a maternity ward to steal hair, goat hair brushes are almost as good. But baby hair would be the best, itâs not like they use them for anything.â
âThe best vodka is made out of potatoes, not wheat. Remember that. Polish potato vodka.â
âLetâs have a coffee break. Fifteen. I mean fifteen minutes, do not have fifteen coffees.â
 Heâs notorious for never actually booking a class, but just having his classes wherever he wants and whenever he wants, and acting insulted when he and his students are shooed out. One morning when he was having a class in the room that our teacher of the day had booked for the day, Diego left first with all his students following him in such a neat row, that he started sarcastically muttering some prayer or religious litany in either italian or latin as he went.
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