charcoal quotes

Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.

-John Cleveland
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

According to Pliny, painting was brought to Egypt by Gyges of Lydia; for he says that Gyges once saw his own shadow cast by the light of a fire and instantly drew his own outline on the wall with a piece of charcoal.

- Giorgio Vasari
  Lives of theArtists (translated by George Bull,1965).