Quotes About Detail

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

She spoke with the air of the artist, playing out each nuance until it wasn't a nuance anymore.

Abstract art filled the walls, lined the bookshelves. But all painted with the same crude hand, no eye to detail or form. Savagely mixed, the colors selected to hurt the eye. Jackson Pollock without the pictures. They were ugliness disguising themselves as talent.

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

The more personal, revealing and sniveling, the more interesting...I wanna feel like I'm snooping, peeking thru the keyhole into somebody's, anybody's, private hell...no detail is too petty if it's honest...

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.

Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly.

You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

In the postseason, every possession counts, so it's the little things.

I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.

It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.