Quotes About Miniature Art

#1. You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.

Jamie Le Fay

#2. Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

Shahzia Sikander

#3. What saved me, as I now see, was that it turned to something else altogether. It didn't last as suspense - it was superseded by horrible proofs.

Henry James

#4. NEXT LIFE. My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of Slow Information. I will also teach letter writing, listening, miniature portrait painting, and the art of doing one thing at a time.

Vivian Swift

#5. A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Paul McCartney

#7. The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.

Dalai Lama

#9. The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.

Nick Davies

#10. World War II was the last government program that really worked.

George Will

#11. There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

Elisabeth Elliot