At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not… — Neil Denari Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass… — John Medina Copy Share Image
I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they]… — Brooksley Born Copy Share Image
If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard,… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
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