Quotes of Varnish - somelinesforyou

“ I wanted the palette to mirror who they are. ”

- Mark Burnett

“ Culture is one thing and varnish is another. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. ”

- Judith Thurman

“ I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. ”

- Jackson Pollock

“ Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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