Air Force Mirage

Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or mirage:

    “Nor sequent centuries could hit
    Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE’s wit.
    The men who lived with him became
    Poets, for the air was fame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The difference between a photograph and even the most realistic painting—say, one of Courbet’s landscapes—is that in the latter there has been selection, emphasis and some discreet distortion. The painter’s deep instinctive feeling for mass and force has rearranged everything.”
    —Gerald Branan (1894–1987)

    “Whom we desired above all things to know,
    Sister of the mirage and echo.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)