Samuel Palmer Quotes

Samuel Palmer Hon.RE was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. January 1805 – 24. May 1881
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Famous Samuel Palmer Quotes

“I hope to begin a new plan… not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”

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The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)

“Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.”

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Introduction to Palmer's translation of Virgil's Eclogues

“The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.”

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Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879), from The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)

“It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.”

Samuel Palmer

Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), from The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford, 1974)

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