Charm Quote by Samuel Palmer

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

— Jay Moore

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for…

— Walter J. Phillips

Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the…

— Paul Murray

“Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our…

— Mandy Hale

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into…

— Hans Hofmann

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

— Winston Churchill

“An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown…

— George Eliot

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

— Charles Robert Maturin

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

— James Thurber