Gilding Quotes

I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. (P. T. Barnum)
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. View quote
Hamlin Garland
Down there it's still Summer, I suppose, whereas our sun [in Switzerland] is already gilding the mountains and the larches are turning yellow, but the colours are wonderful, like old, dark red satin. Down here in the valley the huts stand out in the strongest Paris blue against the yellow fields. Here one really learns the values of the individual colours for the first time. And the harsh, monumental lines of the mountains. View quote
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
This hall was, by order of the Emperor Jehanguire, the son of Acbar, highly decorated with painting and gilding; but in the lapse of time it was found to be gone greatly to decay; and the Emperor Aurungzebe, either from superstition or avarice, ordered it to be entirely defaced, and the walls whitened. View quote
Akbar
Hope, frail but lovely shadow! thou dost come, Like a bright vision on our pathway here, Making the gloomy future beautiful, And gilding our horizon with a light, The fairest human eye can ever know. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. View quote
Samuel Johnson
At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The Oriental heritage, due to the long sojourn of the Moors in Spain, had a profound influence on the taste of the people. From these Oriental invaders the Spaniards derived the great surfaces of blank wall with occasional spots of luxuriant ornament that characterize nearly all their work. From them also comes the love of bright color shown in the use of polychrome tiles and rich fabrics and in the painting and gilding of sculpture and ornamental motives. While the large constructive forms, particularly vaults and domes, are frankly and simply expressed, the ornament as in the work of the Orient, is rather an incrustation, a mere surface decoration, than a pretense at logical construction. (Clarence Stein)