Quotes About Miniatures

#1. My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

#2. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

Susan Sontag

#3. Miniatures made her feel like she was larger than life, like the world was in the palm of her hand.

Lisi Harrison

#4. 'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.

Jon Favreau

#5. Get into the habit of collecting miniatures of your toiletries and keep these in your suitcase.

Sophie Miller

#6. I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

Bent Larsen

#7. I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

James Wolcott

#8. It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size
mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures
a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.

Rosamond Purcell

#9. I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

Peter Jackson

#10. The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

Salman Rushdie

#11. People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Matthea Harvey

#12. I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

John Hench

#13. Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Derek Jarman

#14. Her to look at a picture. She approached and saw the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures,

Jane Austen

#15. And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of every size and shape, some round, some square, some damaged, some intact, some as large as church windows, others as small as snuffbox miniatures.

Michael Ende

#16. As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

Ed Helms

#17. I remember too, a distant bell ... and stars that fell ... like the rainout of the blue.

Johnny Mercer

#18. I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

Valentino Garavani

#19. The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

Gary Shteyngart

#20. The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

Marianne Fredriksson

#21. stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.

Terry Goodkind