Quotes About Subtlety

Alice Gould consideró que ella era una mujer lógica para razonar mas no para sentir, y que las leyes que rigen las emociones nada tienen que ver con la sutileza de las ideas, el orden del pensamiento o el buen juicio.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand.

Of all her rather unremarkable features, her eyes were her strong point, despite being partially hidden behind a pair of spectacles. A gentle blue-grey, their color shifted in the most interesting manner from gentian to pewter depending upon the light. He supposed most people never noticed such subtle variations, thinking her irises to be either plain grey or ordinary blue, but he'd found himself intrigued; more so than he might have expected after such a brief encounter.

Since then he has said nothing and although from time to time I have thrown out what I hope were delicate hints and suggestions he has not seemed to notice them; and with a man Lucifer could not hold a book, bell or candle to for pride I cannot raise the subject directly.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Art is most effective when concealed.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Art lies in concealing art.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.