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Samuel Palmer
8 quotes
“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 (1805–1881) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), from The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford, 1974)
“Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
“I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
“The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879), from The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
“The rights of the poor majority are pure air and pure water, and sufficient space to walk about in, when the rich minority are befouling the air with manufactories, poisoning the rivers, and as in the neighborhood of Foots Cray and St. Mary's, adding "field to field, till there be no place" left, and the villagers cannot step out of the dusty high-road without a trespass..”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879), from The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
“I don't suffer much from solitude in the evenings. I spring upon my books. I always spoke a good word for solitude, and it is grateful to me. Books ward off the ghastly thoughts.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
“It seems to me that a great secret of early education is not to overrate the powers of attention in children. If they go to a church for instance, where there are long sermons, I should let them have scripture history, or lives of the Saints full of pictures, to be administered during the latter half of the discourse, rather than knuckle their ribs or prick them with pins, to make them "attend to what the gentleman says.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)