Contours Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin… — W S Merwin
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast… — Ernest Hemingway
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing… — Tim Pawlenty
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If… — Mark Epstein
Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it… — Morton Feldman
I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back… — Ben Crenshaw
Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to… — Haruki Murakami
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors… — Alan Cooper
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career.… — Steven Pressfield
At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of… — Isabel Allende
Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. — George Saunders
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite,… — Mohammed Dib
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. — Graham Joyce
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of… — Barack Obama
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic… — Sean William Scott

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