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«In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
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Photography
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detail, leitmotiv, photography, smallest, subject, the smallest
«It's the punctilious attention to detail, in a time when nobody even bothers to get the spelling of your name right.»
«A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.»
«Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.»
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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alas, ambush, ambushes, detail, detain, detained, detour, detours, fairy, ideally, insights, In The Moment, painter, processes, reflective, swiftly, tale, The Detours, transformed, transition, transitions, unable, waits, work in progress
«Caress the detail, the divine detail»
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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artistic, conventions, detail, nearly, preserve, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, the Convention, the conventions
«It is summer, it is the solsticethe crowd ischeering, the crowd is laughingin detailpermanently, seriouslywithout thought.»
«ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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alligator, alligators, crocodile, crocodiles, detail, effete, Go West, Grown up, Herodotus, Indus, monarchies, notch, Old World, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, The monarchy
«But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
array, close set, detail, in detail, lifting, One The, The Nose, The Walking, witnessing, witness stand
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