Hatching Quotes

“. . . Leonardo's hatching was distinctive because his lines started on the lower right and moved upward to the left, like this: \\. Today this style has an added advantage: the left-handed hatching in a drawing is evidence that it was made by Leonardo.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“At last, the egg gave way with a sigh, and fluid gushed out, smelling at once of autumn woods and spring fields, and the salt breeze of the ocean that was impossibly far away. The blue-grey foal, like any newborn horse, was a heap of wet limbs.”
― Kathleen Schwab, Queenswood