Quotes About Detail

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

In other words, the minutiae fit around the big things, but the big things don't fit around the minutiae.

David foster Wallace: '...the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.[...] he trains you to study the world through the lens of his prose.' NYTimes, 7 Feb 2016

Otro ejemplo de esta atención al detalle es la forma en que se construyó el castillo. Las piedras en la base son mayores que las que están cerca del tejado. Eso hace que el castillo parezca más grande, pero sin hacerlo demasiado imponente.

The writer overthinks by necessity, collecting and complicating small details, while the tournament golfer needs to be simple, myopic, fixated on one detail at a time.

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Into the emotional scene which followed I need not go in detail. You will have witnessed much the same sort of thing in the pictures, when the United States Marines arrive in the nick of time to relieve the beleaguered garrison. I may sum it up by saying that he fawned upon me.