Quotes About Detail

Good description is fast, spare, specific, and showing. Weak description is slow, wordy, vague, abstract, and telling.

To prepare any activity for the child, it is necessary for the parent to think through every detail ahead of time. For example, is the cracker stiff enough to spread the peanut butter on or does it crumble with the pressure of spreading?...All of these difficulties become apparent in the preliminary practice period by the adult prior to a presentation to the child.

You might find yourself wondering whether all this detail is really necessary, that God could really have stopped after the Ten Commandments and not gotten into leprosy, eating pork, or how to dress and ordain a priest.

if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present

To describe the world is always to simplify its texture, to coarsen the weave: to lose the particular in general.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.