Best Etching Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet.”

Past Memories China Mask Journeys Etching Teapot Mementoes

Book:The Water Castle

Source: The Water Castle

“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”

Wells May Play Light Seems Please Shadow Resources Painter Relief Modesty Charming Sculpture Boldness Sculptors Paradoxical Etching

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.”

Black Lines Tone Subtle Delicate Sheer Variation Etching

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.”

Way Beautiful Results Rich Mediums Tone Subtle Etching

Author:Jay Moore

“It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.”

Seems White Paper Shadow Charm Sparkle White Paper Etching

Author:Samuel Palmer

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.”

World Print Pens Brushes Ink Small World Etching

Author:Maira Kalman

“Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.”

Century Ruins Rome Detroit 18th Century Crumbling Picturesque Etching

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.”

Ifs Doe Art Use Form Sides Struggle Modern Painting Succeed Photography Mass Drawing Aesthetic Exclusive Redundant Watercolors Etching

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.”

Art Courses Numbers Woods Drawing Graphic Institute Thoughts On Life Ceramics Etching

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.”

Trying Said Chance Teach Taught Ready Painter Japan Not Ready Taught Us Ceramics Etching

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.”

Trying I Can Enough Eye Certain Hate Can Do Laughing Focus Magic Air Week Fields I Hate Ties Rough Her Eyes Hate You I Hate You Bolts Artemis Snoring Opal Centaurs Etching

Author:Eoin Colfer

“I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.”

Ifs Littles Helping Left Hurt Lines Blood Cry Draws Window Suicide Cracks Scratches Wrists Pitiful Etching

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.”

People Mind Cases Records Patterns Stuck Chemicals Constructs Groove Scaffolding Etching

Author:Steve Jobs

“Bran grabbed my hand,pulled me to a chest, and swung the heavy lid open. A white cloth covered the contents. He jerked it aside. Human heads filled the chest. "Oh God." He scooped a mummified head from the chest by a scalp lock and thrust it at me. "All of them are mine." This was officially the weirdest version of "come down to my place and I'll show you some etchings" I've ever been hit with.”

Humans Shows Hands White Mines Filled Heavy Versions Covered Chests Locks Thrust Etching

Author:Ilona Andrews

“The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”

Men Water Saws Sea Sky Building Wind Trade Clouds Flight Ducks Building Up Etching

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away”

Night Land Wind Stones Storm Dust Helpless Feathers Ravens Embers Etching Breaking Away Dust Storms

Author:Jessica Sorensen

“I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”

“The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”

Creative Produce Photography Photographer Photograph Disaster Ease Sheer Superficial Etching

Author:Ansel Adams

“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.”

Looks Stills Eye Forget Painting Aim Photographer Photograph Etc Never Forget Etching

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”

World Should Character Age Funny Faces Lines Teach Experience Aging Admire Firm Old People Elders Wrinkles Inspirational Age Etching

Author:Clarence Day

“His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.”

Men World Mind Looks Left Nations Voice Consciousness Style Cry Landscape Features Encounters Collectives Bob Vivid Majestic Indelible Collective Consciousness Marley Etching Prancing

Author:Edward Seaga

“Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.”

Important Order Painting Photograph Oil Drawing Despise Inferiors Impotence Watercolors Oil Painting Etching

Author:Paul Strand