Highest Surface Wind

Famous quotes containing the words highest, surface and/or wind:

    “Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)

    “If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”
    —James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)

    “In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
    Nemesis will have her dues,
    And all our struggles and our toils
    Tighter wind the giant coils.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)