Art Details Quotes

#1. There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and to the art of telling good lies. And what is fiction but the telling of lies?

Donna Levin

#2. It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Paul Bailey

#3. You have to get out in some rain to find your rainbows

Brad Perks

#4. The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

Russell Sherman

#5. Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

Tove Jansson

#6. In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim ... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I never really have been, and I'm certain now that I never will be, and you know why? Because it's impossible for me to love anyone like I love you - and I really tried with Orion.

Josephine Angelini

#8. Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience ... many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Robert Adams

#10. I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people - I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.

Lydia Lunch

#11. [Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

Charlie Brooker

#12. If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.

Margaret Visser

#14. The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is.

Gerhard Richter

#15. Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Charlie Chaplin

#17. In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#18. How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Karen Gillan

#19. All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

Henri Matisse

#20. The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#21. The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?

Bill Maher

#22. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

#23. One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

Henry Fox Talbot

#24. We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Minsky

#25. Whatever I do, I should do it perfectly and correctly

Nayantara

#26. Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#27. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Russell Edson

#28. When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

Iggy Pop

#29. I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#30. Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Clive Bell

#31. If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

Tania Elizabeth

#32. I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

Marianne Williamson

#33. He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.

Fredrik Backman

#34. Art is all in the details.

Christian Marclay

#35. To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job.

Marty Rubin

#36. In order to complete any successful and streamlined qualification effort, a comprehensive plan should be developed which bridges the GEP/commissioning phases with the qualification phases of the project.

Robert A. Young

#37. Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL ... Thomas Moore ... to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparant insignificance.

Thomas Moore

#38. I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

Ernest K. Gann

#39. Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

#40. Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

Philip Schultz

#41. I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand

#42. For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

Nina Fedoroff

#43. Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.

Arianna Huffington