Distance Quotes

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

Paul Klee
- Moment
- Distance
- Line
The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

Edmond Jabes
- Hand
- Distance
- Word

I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What is your thing supposed to sound like?" You know: "What's the thing you do," that everyone can recognizably tell from a long distance is you and then you're supposed to be in search of that marker and you're supposed to find it and you're supposed to live there for the rest of your life. And it seemed to me, from a young age, that was what I was encouraged to do. You find a sound and that's your sound! That's what you do.

David Lang
- Thinking
- Long
- Composer
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Bel Kaufman
It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.

Emily Dickinson
- World
- Answer
- Street
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

Willa Cather
- Country
- Winter
- Hours
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

Vincent Van Gogh
- Air
- Breathe
- Atmosphere
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

John Locke Nazareth