Intaglio Quotes

“Don’t cut too deep in your first prints.”
“But what if we do dig too deep?” a girl in the front asked. “What happens then?”
Giulia reached out to the side, pulling up a print stained with inky shadows, but within its depths, the faint outlines of something else. An echo of what it had been still visible in the second plate.
“Cut too deep,” she said, “and your image will keep coming back again and again, no matter how many times you rework it.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“The lightning made them appear in every detail like an intaglio and then disappear and then reappear again.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World