quotes about Etching

last updated: November 28, 2023

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.
-- Alfred Stieglitz

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

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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.
-- Maira Kalman

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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.
-- Steve Jobs

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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.
-- Samuel Palmer

Source : "The Letters of Samuel Palmer". Book edited by Raymond Lister, Oxford, Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), 1974.

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“It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.”
“If timing ain't everything, it's damn close”
“If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?”
“That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.”

Source : David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.90, Titan Books
“I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.”
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”

Source : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.269, "F+W Media, Inc."
“You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.”

Source : "The Very Colorful Jessie J". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. April 10, 2012.
“If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”

Source : "The Coevolution quarterly". "The Coevolution quarterly", Nr. 8-12, p. 31, ed. Anne Waldman, 1975.
“The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves...was their friendliness towards each other.”