“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.” MindHumansPersonsScienceNamesBehindsWonderSawsFieldsThousandHorseGlassesShipsPocketsHuman MindSimplestThrillingMicroscopesSteeples Author:David Fairchild
“The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.” WantHumansLooksReasonViewsPaintingPaintGlassesCommandIntimacyIntimateLook UpReducing Author:Mark Rothko
“Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.” MenHumansEyeNatureBirdAngelInfiniteGlassesFishesChainsTheeBeastInsectsEtherealGod And Nature Author:Alexander Pope