Cases Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Paint the essential character of things.

— Camille Pissarro

When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much…

— Hugh Dancy

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

— Donald A. Norman

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of…

— Daido Moriyama

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone…

— Banksy

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words…

— Maynard James Keenan

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich

In my work, I really try to look at ordinary things quite closely to see if there isn't a little bit of something special…

— Ted Kooser