Pencil/history

Famous quotes containing the words pencil and/or history:

    Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
    My person degrade & my temper chastise;
    And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
    And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)