Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships — Lyonel Feininger Copy Share Image
“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I dream of a sort of music in which the musical forms provide both a foreground and a background for each other.” — Per Nørgård Copy Share Image
The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there." and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never… — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
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