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“Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.”

Should Breaths Paint Glasses Surface Application Thick

Book:Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

Source: Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

“The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.”

Humans Fall Voice Vision Mouths Breaths Mirrors Glasses Mood Smoke Leafs Rust Hue Stained Glass

Author:Anais Nin

“As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)”

Faces Fire Sky Return Breaths Glasses Monsters Dust Witch Gods And Monsters

Book:Sails and Mirage

Source: Sails and Mirage

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

Thinking Trying Doe Cold Spring Window Breaths Notes Glasses Despite

Author:Ally Carter

“Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.”

Giving Firsts Whole Moving Grows Cities Window Breaths Wings Winter Glasses Patterns Breathe Lovely Ice Fairy Continents Castles Geometry Frost Blink Moving In Ammunition Vapor

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.”

Ifs May Clear Breaths Glasses Credit Cracked

Author:Walter Scott

“Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.”

Men Life Years Hands Light Pain Night Heaven Pleasure Grief Hell Tears Flower Summer Shadow Madness Breaths Endure Glasses Ran Fallen Remembrance Risen Shadow Of Death

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.”

Men Enough America Passion Growth Fine Letters Breaths Mirrors Critics Lips Glasses Beer Nevertheless Finest Complacency Steam Chic Moisture Chilled

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness