Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm. — Mark Twain
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from… — Charles Lamb
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to… — Hal Borland
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. — William Shenstone
Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at… — Lord Chesterfield
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. — George Herbert
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching. — Susan Sontag
I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense… — David Hockney
It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get… — Leonard Cohen
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and… — Aaron Copland
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. — Sam Abell
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of… — David Hume
A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain. — Robert Henri
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there… — Jeanne Moreau
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or… — Joshua Reynolds
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I… — Eugene Delacroix
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of… — Alain de Botton
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand… — Aaron Hill
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. — Mariano Rajoy
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to… — Sara Davidson
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. — Walter J. Phillips
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground...… — Mu Xin
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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