Distance Quotes

I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time or distance can change.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

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, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

If you look at a luminous body in the far distance through a smallhole it will seem to grow less, and if you look at it near at hand it will not undergo any change. That is that if you look at this light atadistance of one or two braccia from the aforesaid hole it will not undergo any change whether you are looking at it through this hole or outside of it.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.